Re: Software RAID guidance

2006-05-05 Thread David Robillard
Robert Fitzpatrick wrote: I have an old NT4 PIII here that has a pair Adaptec Array1000 Family controllers with 2 pairs of identical drives on one of them (2 IBM 9GB and 2 Seagate 35GB). From what I googled, *nix does not support the controller, so I have removed the RAID arrays and loaded

Re: Software RAID guidance

2006-05-04 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Robert Fitzpatrick wrote: I have an old NT4 PIII here that has a pair Adaptec Array1000 Family controllers with 2 pairs of identical drives on one of them (2 IBM 9GB and 2 Seagate 35GB). From what I googled, *nix does not support the controller, so I have removed the RAID arrays and loaded

Re: Software RAID guidance

2006-05-04 Thread Robert Fitzpatrick
On Fri, 2006-05-05 at 00:37 +0100, Alex Zbyslaw wrote: Robert Fitzpatrick wrote: I have an old NT4 PIII here that has a pair Adaptec Array1000 Family controllers with 2 pairs of identical drives on one of them (2 IBM 9GB and 2 Seagate 35GB). From what I googled, *nix does not support the

Re: Software RAID guidance

2006-05-04 Thread Ian Jefferson
I have been uable to get vinum to work under 6.0. I'm no expert though. Vinum became gvinum in 6.0 and is implemented using geom. Recently the gvinum man page has been updated and it available in 6.1 RC-1. I think if you want mirroring only you should consult the geom pages. It seems as

Re: Software RAID guidance

2006-05-04 Thread Kevin Kinsey
Robert Fitzpatrick wrote: I have an old NT4 PIII here that has a pair Adaptec Array1000 Family controllers with 2 pairs of identical drives on one of them (2 IBM 9GB and 2 Seagate 35GB). From what I googled, *nix does not support the controller, so I have removed the RAID arrays and loaded

Re: Software RAID guidance

2006-05-04 Thread Robert Fitzpatrick
On Thu, 2006-05-04 at 19:59 -0400, Ian Jefferson wrote: I think if you want mirroring only you should consult the geom pages. Great, I believe I have this setup right. I'm not sure what the fdisk issue may be with the message 'fdisk: Geom not found', but all looks to have setup properly. Now,

Re: Software RAID guidance

2006-05-04 Thread Cheng-Lung Sung
You can try gmirror(8) Ref: 1. http://people.freebsd.org/~rse/mirror/ 2. http://www.onlamp.com/lpt/a/6309 On Thu, May 04, 2006 at 07:24:15PM -0400, Robert Fitzpatrick wrote: I have an old NT4 PIII here that has a pair Adaptec Array1000 Family controllers with 2 pairs of identical drives

Re: Software RAID guidance

2006-05-04 Thread Cheng-Lung Sung
IMHO, fdisk is unnecessary. I got my two brand new HDs ad[46] mirrored w/o fdisk. On Thu, May 04, 2006 at 09:15:39PM -0400, Robert Fitzpatrick wrote: On Thu, 2006-05-04 at 19:59 -0400, Ian Jefferson wrote: I think if you want mirroring only you should consult the geom pages. Great, I

Re: Software RAID guidance

2006-05-04 Thread Robert Fitzpatrick
On Fri, 2006-05-05 at 09:20 +0800, Cheng-Lung Sung wrote: Great, I believe I have this setup right. I'm not sure what the fdisk issue may be with the message 'fdisk: Geom not found', but all looks to have setup properly. Now, just to have a clear understanding, what is the purpose of

Re: Software RAID guidance

2006-05-04 Thread Cheng-Lung Sung
Hi, newfs first? In my experiment, there is only one mirror/gm0s1 exists (no s1a, s1c...) On Thu, May 04, 2006 at 09:40:17PM -0400, Robert Fitzpatrick wrote: On Fri, 2006-05-05 at 09:20 +0800, Cheng-Lung Sung wrote: Great, I believe I have this setup right. I'm not sure what the fdisk

Re: Software RAID guidance

2006-05-04 Thread Robert Fitzpatrick
On Fri, 2006-05-05 at 09:16 +0800, Cheng-Lung Sung wrote: 1. http://people.freebsd.org/~rse/mirror/ Great doc, thanks! I was able to get the first part of the 2nd approach booting from the gm0 mirror, but after booting and trying to add my da0 to the mirror, it does not recognize the