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From: Steve Gailey <steveg@metrosol.demon.co.uk>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: [Q] Raid supported ?
Date: Thu, 15 Feb 1996 10:20:52 +0000
Organization: Metronome Solutions Ltd
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Rob Simons wrote:
> Anyone any idea wether RAID 5 is supported ? I can get a
> Micropolis Radion LT 4200 with 3x2.1Gb HDD (expandable)
> and was wondering if it's RAID features can be used, or
> if there is another possibility to use any of the device's
> features.
If I recall correctly, the Radion (Which is a washing powder
in this country :-) is just a bunch of disks, and a special
driver for certain Adaptec cards(Novel and SCO?) which does
the RAID. There is no such driver for FreeBSD, but I believe
that some of the hardware supported does RAID. Check out the
list.
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Steve Gailey steveg@metrosol.demon.co.uk
Metronome Solutions Ltd. Tel: +44 973 563 239
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