You might take a look at: http://www.arcoide.com/
They have been doing hardware mirroring solutions for [S|P]ATA and USB for several years, and may be able to offer what you want. You only need one SATA connection to one of their devices to mirror two SATA drives. The only question I would have is whether the rebuild will work in your environment. If not, then I would favor software mirroring. Otherwise, this looks like a workable solution. Chris -)----- Francesco Trentini wrote: > >> >> >> [...] possibility of the inclusion of a simple RAID1 chip [...] >> >> Well, not everybody runs Linux. One of the few advantages of firmware >> (rarely actually hardware, though for RAID1-only that's relatively >> >> plausible) RAID is that it is - or at least can be if done right - >> completely transparent to software. >> > > Yes this kind of software transparency is what it will be useful for. > My request raised from a past post and I want just to investigate > current evolution: > > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg00424.html > > I usually adopt Freebsd and of course GEOM ( module or wired in the > kernel ) can be used for a mirror, but being in "hardware" and pre - OS > is something that I tend to value ( of course without excluding the > proper tools then on the OS to monitor / inspect the array ). > > bye > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > Soekris-tech mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech -- "Implementing CIFS - the Common Internet FileSystem" ISBN: 013047116X Samba Team -- http://www.samba.org/ -)----- Christopher R. Hertel jCIFS Team -- http://jcifs.samba.org/ -)----- ubiqx development, uninq. ubiqx Team -- http://www.ubiqx.org/ -)----- [email protected] OnLineBook -- http://ubiqx.org/cifs/ -)----- [email protected] _______________________________________________ Soekris-tech mailing list [email protected] http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech
