From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Apr 2 03:03:40 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org 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 681D016A41F for ; Sun, 2 Apr 2006 03:03:40 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) Received: from cain.gsoft.com.au (cain.gsoft.com.au [203.31.81.10]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 36EB443D49 for ; Sun, 2 Apr 2006 03:03:38 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) Received: from inchoate.gsoft.com.au (ppp218-158.lns1.adl2.internode.on.net [203.122.218.158]) (authenticated bits=0) by cain.gsoft.com.au (8.13.5/8.13.4) with ESMTP id k3233R3U088770 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Sun, 2 Apr 2006 12:33:33 +0930 (CST) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) From: "Daniel O'Connor" To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org, lars@gmx.at Date: Sun, 2 Apr 2006 13:33:19 +1030 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.1 References: <20060401110818.U54953@localhost> <442ED97C.4040201@gmx.at> In-Reply-To: <442ED97C.4040201@gmx.at> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="nextPart1647025.ZDJCRrfTut"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200604021233.20917.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> X-Spam-Score: 0 () X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.56 on 203.31.81.10 Cc: Subject: Re: SATA RAID: Adaptec 1420SA, Promise TX4300? X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 02 Apr 2006 03:03:40 -0000 --nextPart1647025.ZDJCRrfTut Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline On Sunday 02 April 2006 05:20, Lars Cleary wrote: > Why don't you just use gmirror(8) and do software RAID 1? > > IMHO a controller just for RAID 1 is unnecessary, > as the OS together with a reasonable motherboards disk controller > is just as fast as any RAID controller. You can't boot off a system with a dead primary disk with software RAID1. (well you MIGHT but.. in any case RAID1 cards are quite cheap) =2D-=20 Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C --nextPart1647025.ZDJCRrfTut Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2.2 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQBELz745ZPcIHs/zowRAtEwAJ41tKk1YjQ7N+XB1ep/+qft3S4gQgCgpD/p tnTA5N6iVRRXCt9Jb58/THU= =8DAb -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart1647025.ZDJCRrfTut--