Re: Hot Swap hardware on FreeBSD?

2004-01-29 Thread Jesse Guardiani
Stephen P. Cravey wrote: I'm trying to locate a good resource for creating hot swap capable servers with FreeBSD and Vinum. Specifically, I'm trying to find out several things: Are there resources somewhere that document this type of thing? Please? Do I need controllers for SATA/SCSI

Re: Hot Swap hardware on FreeBSD?

2004-01-24 Thread me
what about buying an external raid-box? then you dont have to care about these questions ;) the external box is doing raid 5 with hot standby disk and is connected to the system via scsi and looks like one big drive. the box itself is full of hot-swappable ide drives and the system does not

Re: Hot Swap hardware on FreeBSD?

2004-01-24 Thread Stephen P. Cravey
Two reasons: 0)Price. 1)To learn something useful. It shouldn't be difficult, I just can't seem to locate any information on it. This seems the most appropriate place to ask. -Stephen On Sat, 24 Jan 2004 10:24:45 +0100 me [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: what about buying an external raid-box? then

Hot Swap hardware on FreeBSD?

2004-01-23 Thread Stephen P. Cravey
I'm trying to locate a good resource for creating hot swap capable servers with FreeBSD and Vinum. Specifically, I'm trying to find out several things: Are there resources somewhere that document this type of thing? Please? Do I need controllers for SATA/SCSI that will handle the