From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Jan 4 12:20:23 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2C7BB37B401 for ; Sat, 4 Jan 2003 12:20:22 -0800 (PST) Received: from toscano.org (ip68-100-184-64.nv.nv.cox.net [68.100.184.64]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6D00543EA9 for ; Sat, 4 Jan 2003 12:20:15 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from pete@toscano.org) Received: from bubba.toscano.org (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by toscano.org (8.12.5/8.12.5) with ESMTP id h04KKBAD008090 for ; Sat, 4 Jan 2003 15:20:11 -0500 Received: (from pete@localhost) by bubba.toscano.org (8.12.5/8.12.5/Submit) id h04KKAHl008088 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Sat, 4 Jan 2003 15:20:10 -0500 Date: Sat, 4 Jan 2003 15:20:10 -0500 From: Pete Toscano To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: frustrating disklabel problem Message-ID: <20030104202010.GB4732@bubba.toscano.org> References: <20030104162022.GA4732@bubba.toscano.org> <20030104200005.GA4023@freepuppy.bellavista.cz> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20030104200005.GA4023@freepuppy.bellavista.cz> X-Unexpected: The Spanish Inquisition User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.3i Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sat, 04 Jan 2003, Roman Neuhauser wrote: > hmm, why are you trying to create a software mirror if you have a > card that does that? you use vinum when you don't have a RAID card. > you don't need it when you do have one. Now where's the fun in that? :) Seriously though, I have a few reasons: 1. I want to learn how to use vinum. 2. From my Linux experience (I'm much more experienced with Linux), I learned that most lower-end IDE RAID cards (Promise, Highpoint, others?) are really just software RAID with the software part in a program on the card. Linux's software RAID is usually higher performance than the RAID that's on the card. I figure vinum is probably better too. 3. I didn't want to be locked into one hardware vendor's RAID implementation. This machine is mostly just a bunch of spare parts thrown together. I'd like to be as free from hardware tie-in as possible. Granted, 1 is my primary reason, but 2 and 3 are factors (albeit minor). I'm using the RAID card because it was (at the time) the only IDE adapter that I had that supported UDMA 100. I bought this other adapter hoping that this disklabel problem I'm seeing is a hardware problem. It doesn't seem to be, so I'm probably returning the new adapter shortly. pete To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message