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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!nntp.coast.net!news.sgi.com!www.nntp.primenet.com!nntp.primenet.com!howland.erols.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!in2.uu.net!nntp.inet.fi!news.funet.fi!news.cs.hut.fi!news.clinet.fi!not-for-mail From: mickey@cantina.clinet.fi (Mika Ruohotie) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: How can i do this? =) Date: 12 Sep 1996 11:56:05 +0300 Organization: Clinet, Espoo, Finland Lines: 33 Message-ID: <518j75$flf@cantina.clinet.fi> NNTP-Posting-Host: cantina.clinet.fi i tried to rtfm, but found no clue how to do this: i'm setting up a server where i will use three identical hard drives, it was trivia to figure out how to strip two drives, but i want to mirror to the third... is it possible? sure i could crontab some daily process, but i would rather do it on the fly, since stripping _is_ a risk if either of the drives blows up... i am planning to throw adaptec 3940UW into the machine and have the two drives on one channel and the mirroring one on the other, or should i have the stripping drives on different channels? or does anyone have suggestions how to drive the machine to the edge? =) (p166, 96-128 ram, ga586hx512 board, 3940uw, smc 10/100 ether) also, any recommendations which fast wide scsi2 and ultra wide scsi drives gives the best performance/reliability... i was thinking to use seagate barracuda drives... opinions? i personally would use something else, but... i'm bulding the machine in a week or something... oh yes, i would've loved to use the HP C1553 DAT autoloader, but i doubt FreeBSD 2.1.5 (this is what i will use) supports it? so, i guess i have to do with HP C1533... right? mickey net/sys admin mika@aeon.net