It’s been awhile since I’ve configured softraid. Can’t it be done with a separate partitions on the same physical disk? Bc i definitely can’t have more than 2 physical disks in there. Like e.g. i could have /usr and /home RAIDed, but / would just be on one of the drives
Sent from my iPhone > On Jan 4, 2019, at 11:52 PM, Jordan Geoghegan <jgeoghega...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > >> On 01/04/19 15:12, danieljb...@icloud.com wrote: >> The hard drive recently died in my G4 Cube, so I just purchased an IDE SSD. >> Like you do. >> >> The CD-ROM drive died a few years ago, so, as it were, I have an >> unoccupied IDE connector in my Cube. In theory, I could get a second IDE >> SSD and then I could use softraid to RAID-0 stripe them for extra speed. >> Considering the IDE bus would almost certainly be my throughput >> bottleneck even with only one SSD, that would be pretty useless. >> >> On the other hand, who else among you has a G4 Cube with striped SSDs? >> >> Anyway, no question here, just enjoying the fact that this old >> machine can still run modern software thanks to the effors of this >> community. Perhaps, I may even do something important with my Cube and >> RAID-1 mirror the SSDs for redundancy. >> > > macppc doesn't support booting from softraid. If you want to run RAID on > macppc, you'll need a separate non RAID disk to boot from. >
