Pete wrote:
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The RAID-1 volume I'm using right now is with two drives attached to
a non-RAID card with a Promise chipset.
Does it work if you move the two drives to another machine without a
Promise, Highpoint, or other RAID controller card or MB chipset...?
Hardware based RAID is likely
On Sunday, 9 March 2003 at 20:15:32 -0500, Chuck Swiger wrote:
Pete wrote:
Generally, one cannot boot from a vinum based-device, unless you are
only doing RAID-1 mirroring.
You can have a Vinum root file system as long as at least one plex is
concatenated from a single subdisk.
I'm familar
On Sun, 09 Mar 2003, Chuck Swiger wrote:
The ATA RAID support via atacontrol apparently requires hardware RAID
controllers like the Promise or Highpoint devices.
I don't think this is right. The RAID-1 volume I'm using right now is
with two drives attached to a non-RAID card with a Promise
A couple days ago, I asked on the -hackers list about a problem I was
having with Vinum and my Promise-based controllers. Søren replied with
how to do this by using atacontrol to build the volume. No Vinum seems
to be required.
I thought Vinum was FreeBSD's RAID system. If you wanted to do
Pete wrote:
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I thought Vinum was FreeBSD's RAID system. If you wanted to do software
RAID with FreeBSD, you needed to use Vinum. Now I find this out. Does
that ATA subsystem have RAID support built in? (Since atacontrol just
seems to control the ATA devices...) If this is so, what's
