Date: Tue, 23 Jan 2007 10:05:19 -0500 From: Jerry McAllister <jerrymc@msu.edu> To: Damian Wiest <dwiest@vailsys.com> Cc: Steve Franks <stevefranks@ieee.org>, FreeBSD Users Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: hardware mirrors recognized as individual disks in fbsd Message-ID: <20070123150519.GA15419@gizmo.acns.msu.edu> In-Reply-To: <20070123073506.GB6053@dfwdamian.vail> References: <539c60b90701161033v5e316ef4m19332bd6e86ab67b@mail.gmail.com> <20070123011659.GD22569@dfwdamian.vail> <20070123073506.GB6053@dfwdamian.vail>
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On Tue, Jan 23, 2007 at 01:35:06AM -0600, Damian Wiest wrote: > On Mon, Jan 22, 2007 at 07:16:59PM -0600, Damian Wiest wrote: > > [snip] > > > Real hardware RAID chips/cards tend to be expensive, > > proprietary, don't require an OS driver and include a battery backup > > system for data in the RAID cache should the system lose power. > > I don't know what I was thinking, of course the hardware RAID systems > require drivers. Of course, what you meant to say was that they don't require an OS raid utility to zip the raid together. They look like a single hardware device and the driver must just be for that device sort of like any other device. ////jerry > > -Damian > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"
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