From owner-freebsd-stable Sat Jul 13 8: 3:48 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 90AE737B400; Sat, 13 Jul 2002 08:03:46 -0700 (PDT) Received: from services.webwarrior.net (overlord-host99.dsl.visi.com [209.98.86.99]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E60EC43E64; Sat, 13 Jul 2002 08:03:45 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jpaetzel@hutchtel.net) Received: from twincat.vladsempire.net (hutch-851.hutchtel.net [206.10.71.179]) by services.webwarrior.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8DF3C838257; Sat, 13 Jul 2002 10:03:44 -0500 (CDT) Received: by twincat.vladsempire.net (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 67E9838CF; Sat, 13 Jul 2002 10:02:18 +0000 (GMT) Date: Sat, 13 Jul 2002 10:02:18 +0000 From: Josh Paetzel To: Steve O'Hara-Smith Cc: Greg 'groggy' Lehey , jim@nasby.net, laursen@netgroup.dk, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Software raid 1 on root partition? Message-ID: <20020713100218.B284@twincat.vladsempire.net> References: <25f401c228d4$a3482fb0$1a01000a@area51> <20020711091015.B51520@flake.decibel.org> <20020711200902.3653b534.steve@sohara.org> <20020713032546.GD61459@wantadilla.lemis.com> <20020713075109.06ecf02f.steve@sohara.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20020713075109.06ecf02f.steve@sohara.org>; from steve@sohara.org on Sat, Jul 13, 2002 at 07:51:09AM +0200 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sat, Jul 13, 2002 at 07:51:09AM +0200, Steve O'Hara-Smith wrote: > On Sat, 13 Jul 2002 12:55:46 +0930 > Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: > > G> The question was about software RAID. That's currently still not > G> possible. > > OK now I'm confused - if you set up a RAID1 array with atacontrol > on a standard (non RAID) controller what's doing the RAID if it isn't the > ata driver software ? > > -- > C:>WIN | Directable Mirrors That would be nothing. You can do software raid with vinum or some other utility, or you can do hardware ata raid with a promise or highpoint controller and interface to it with atacontrol. You can't use atacontrol to make a standard non-raid IDE controller do raid. Josh To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message