From owner-freebsd-hardware Sat Sep 1 15:43:37 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from mass.dis.org (mass.dis.org [216.240.45.41]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2EFC737B420; Sat, 1 Sep 2001 15:43:27 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mass.dis.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mass.dis.org (8.11.4/8.11.3) with ESMTP id f81MnOY01941; Sat, 1 Sep 2001 15:49:25 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from msmith@mass.dis.org) Message-Id: <200109012249.f81MnOY01941@mass.dis.org> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.1.1 10/15/1999 To: "Aaron" Cc: msmith@freebsd.org, freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Re: In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 27 Aug 2001 07:38:38 PDT." <20010827144140.0301337B403@hub.freebsd.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Sat, 01 Sep 2001 15:49:24 -0700 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org It's a function of the way the card works. The card has to "bless" a drive *before* you put any data on it. All (decent) RAID controllers work like this. > Whoops, my bad. Hit reply on the wrong message. What I meant to ask was > that adding a drive with data already on it could not be added and > mirrored on the fly is a limitation of the card or just not implemented > in the drivers. > > Sorry for the confusion, > > - aaron > > > >> > >> I need to add RAID 1 to one of our web servers. I went ahead and > purchased > >> the 3ware 6200 controller, and have run into these potential problems, > even > >> before I've installed the hardware: > >> > >> 1. Can a drive containing data be added to this controller and then > have the > >> drive mirror'ed on the second drive? I asked this question from 3ware > and > >> they said they will get back to me. > > > > No, it cannot. This basically kills the rest of your questions. > > > > -- > > ... every activity meets with opposition, everyone who acts has his > > rivals and unfortunately opponents also. But not because people want > > to be opponents, rather because the tasks and relationships force > > people to take different points of view. [Dr. Fritz Todt] > > V I C T O R Y N O T V E N G E A N C E > > > > --------------------------------------------- > click46[wp] - AIM the click46 - ICQ 43450396 > webpimps.net | bsdatwork.com | nerdserve.net > moderator - o/c cooling forum @ hardforum.com > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message -- ... every activity meets with opposition, everyone who acts has his rivals and unfortunately opponents also. But not because people want to be opponents, rather because the tasks and relationships force people to take different points of view. [Dr. Fritz Todt] V I C T O R Y N O T V E N G E A N C E To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message