Daniel O'Connor writes: > On Sunday 02 April 2006 17:48, Matthias Andree wrote: > > > You can't boot off a system with a dead primary disk with software RAID1. > > > (well you MIGHT but.. in any case RAID1 cards are quite cheap) > > > > It's a matter of the BIOS: > > will it complain, or will it proceed to the next SATA disk? > > Yes indeed. > It also depends on the failure mode of the disk. > > Personally I think the price is worth paying :) > (Although for a home server you can get your hands on easily then software > RAID should not be a problem)
One of the advantages that purely software raid (e.g. gmirror) has over "hardware" raid (faux or genuine) is that in an emergency I can take one or both of my gmirror'ed disks and put them in just about any system that I can come up with and they'll work. With raid systems that use proprietary metadata I'd need to find a similar controller to hook them up to. I think that this is one of those Darned Engineering Tradeoffs, but I'd rather have the flexibility in assembling hardware than having the raid be able to boot w/out intervention w/ a dead disk. g. _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
