On Tuesday, December 21, 2004, at 07:15AM, Roger. O. Svenning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Jonathan Reeder wrote: > >>Since the SATA RAID controller in the Dell PE SC420 isn't supported yet, is >>there anything I can do with atacontrol to run my two drives as a software >>RAID instead of relying on the controller? >> >>I've never used SATA before, so any advice anyone can offer is greatly >>appreciated. >> >AFAIK you cant use software RAID on your system drives as the system has >to boot before software RAID can be loaded. >Thus you would need a dedicated system drive which the system can boot >from in order to load software raid on the other two disks. Not true. Vinum is your friend (starting on the 16th page of the PDF): http://www.vinumvm.org/cfbsd/vinum.pdf If you are using 5.3, you probably want to look into gvinum... _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
