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From: aad@nwnet.net (Anthony Talltree)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc
Subject: Re: Drive Striping on BSDI
Date: 20 Dec 1996 16:32:23 -0800
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>>         Ok heres the situation I need to make two one gig drive into a
>> single mounted two gig drive. I can't have two separate mounts so this is
>> important and I needed it yesterday.

>Sounds like you need a hardware-based RAID solution.

If he could afford one, I doubt he'd be messing with 2 1G disks.

>Try the DPT RAID controllers.  There is a driver for BSD/OS 2.1.

Their products appear to be quite nice, but they are quite pricy.  Neither
DPT nor the local reseller can lend me a demo unit either.