> As someone else noted, soft RAID should not be much different on SPARC > vs any other platform, given similar kernel vintages and the CPU > capacity to take advantage of RAID 0 speed or RAID 1 redundancy.
That was me. The only differences could be in booting from the raid disks. I solved this with booting via tftp. I use several PCI-based UltraSparc machines in roles like FTP, SAMBA, CVS, IMAP or similar file-servers. I've had very good experience with 2-port ATA-133 PCI cards based on SI680 chipset. The card is quite cheap and together with 2 large IDE drives connected to SW RAID-1 it's optimal storage solution for my company's needs. -- Honza Houstek
