From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Nov 23 04:09:46 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id EAA07592 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Mon, 23 Nov 1998 04:09:46 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from caladan.tdx.co.uk (caladan.tdx.co.uk [195.188.177.4]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id EAA07587 for ; Mon, 23 Nov 1998 04:09:43 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kpielorz@tdx.co.uk) Received: from tdx.co.uk (lorca-tx.tdx.co.uk [195.188.177.242]) by caladan.tdx.co.uk (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id MAA43097; Mon, 23 Nov 1998 12:07:14 GMT Message-ID: <36594FF1.A6E55C18@tdx.co.uk> Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1998 12:07:13 +0000 From: Karl Pielorz Organization: TDX - The Digital eXchange X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (WinNT; I) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Christopher Martin CC: "freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG" Subject: Re: Software UDMA Drive Mirroring References: <199811231143.MAA07174@mail.keyworld.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Christopher Martin wrote: > > -- [ From: Christopher Martin * EMC.Ver #2.5.02 ] -- > > Hi there, > > Could anyone reply to me with whether there is a software UDMA drive > mirroring solution available in FreeBSD as there is in Linux? > > The drives need not be bootable, though it would be interesting to know that > they could be... > > Please reply to chrism@keyworld.net Try looking at either ccd (man ccd) - or if your running 3.0 - look at Vinum (man vinum). If your not using 3.0 / current you won't be able to use DMA (which AFAIK is only in 3.0 onwards for IDE drives). Vinum offers the promise of being 'bootable' when finished, but it's only beta so far... I have run it successfully with IDE only arrays/mirrors etc. Regards, Karl To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message