On Sat, 04 Jan 2003, Roman Neuhauser wrote: > hmm, why are you trying to create a software mirror if you have a > card that does that? you use vinum when you don't have a RAID card. > you don't need it when you do have one.
Now where's the fun in that? :) Seriously though, I have a few reasons: 1. I want to learn how to use vinum. 2. From my Linux experience (I'm much more experienced with Linux), I learned that most lower-end IDE RAID cards (Promise, Highpoint, others?) are really just software RAID with the software part in a program on the card. Linux's software RAID is usually higher performance than the RAID that's on the card. I figure vinum is probably better too. 3. I didn't want to be locked into one hardware vendor's RAID implementation. This machine is mostly just a bunch of spare parts thrown together. I'd like to be as free from hardware tie-in as possible. Granted, 1 is my primary reason, but 2 and 3 are factors (albeit minor). I'm using the RAID card because it was (at the time) the only IDE adapter that I had that supported UDMA 100. I bought this other adapter hoping that this disklabel problem I'm seeing is a hardware problem. It doesn't seem to be, so I'm probably returning the new adapter shortly. pete To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
