From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jan 29 22:42:20 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id WAA20766 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Fri, 29 Jan 1999 22:42:20 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from mail.greatbasin.net (mail.greatbasin.net [207.228.35.39]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id WAA20761 for ; Fri, 29 Jan 1999 22:42:19 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dan@jgl.reno.nv.us) Received: from danco (rno-max8-44.gbis.net [207.228.62.44]) by mail.greatbasin.net (8.9.2/8.8.8) with SMTP id WAA21186; Fri, 29 Jan 1999 22:42:17 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <028201be4c1b$a4c8bec0$2c3ee4cf@danco.home> From: "Dan O'Connor" To: "freebsd-questions" , "Brian J. McGovern" Subject: Re: Tape drive Date: Fri, 29 Jan 1999 22:41:57 -0800 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 4.72.3155.0 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.3155.0 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG >Another alternative you may consider is just plain RAID 1 drive mirroring. I >have used a product (can't remember the name) that effectively 'splits' the >IDE chain to two identical drives, and supports RAID 1 in the hardware. Arco Computer Products (http://www.arcoide.com/) makes an IDE RAID-1 mirror controller that sells for about $225. I haven't used it with FreeBSD, but it works great on a Windoze machine. It plugs into a PCI slot (for power only, they also have ISA and no-slot options). The card is attached to the IDE controller on your motherboard, and daisy chained to the two mirrored drives. They advertize that it's operating system independent, although you need a DOS boot diskette to use their data duplication/rebuilding software. --Dan To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message