Thu, Apr 05, 2007 at 08:52:44 AM, Antony Mawer wrote: >>I have Intel D975XBX2 with two on-board SATA RAID controllers: one is Intel >>Matrix and the other is Marvell storage. I have FreeBSD 6.2 with RAID-5 >>using Intel Matrix Storage. It seems to work fine. > > You may want to re-think that option... according to the ataraid(4) man > page, RAID5 is not functional (ie. you have about as much data safety as > a RAID0 stripe set does): > >>CAVEATS >> RAID5 is not supported at this time. Code exists, but it neither uses >> nor maintains parity information.
The ataraid driver provides *software* RAID. But doesn't Intel Matrix Storage gives *hardware* RAID support? How could I tell if software is at play? > One drive failure and you will be in for a whole world of hurt... I was going to do a test and simulate a drive failure (and see how to rebuild the array). I haven't had a chance to try that yet. _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
