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#! rnews 2125 bsd Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!news.bbnplanet.com!cpk-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!news.sprintlink.net!news-peer.sprintlink.net!news.sprintlink.net!news-pull.sprintlink.net!news.sprintlink.net!news-dc-9.sprintlink.net!ratty.wolfe.net!news.aa.net!usenet From: "brian wehrle" <brianw@aa.net> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: What are options for RAID with FreeBSD? Date: 10 Jan 1997 09:21:55 GMT Organization: Alternate Access Incorporated Lines: 32 Message-ID: <01bbfe73$ea329be0$b7dc9dcc@bw.aa.net> References: <5b4nd1$erc@itchy.serv.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: lennon-c19.aa.net X-Newsreader: Microsoft Internet News 4.70.1155 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:33990 RAID Boxes are QUITE expensive, hence the software route for data protection. The cost/gig is very uneffective. Something like the AMI RAID controller makes a bunch of disk act as a raid set and represents them as a logical unit. Something like a Raid box has a higher cost/gig. DPT has a raid module for their SCSI cards. I have no idea about drivers for these, as they may not exist. Brian Sean T. Lamont . <zeno@serv.net> wrote in article <5b4nd1$erc@itchy.serv.net>... > > I'm evaluating RAID systems, and I'd like to know what level of support > is currently available for RAID under FreeBSD. I need level 1 at the > very least, preferably level 5. (I realize RAID 0 is emulated by CCD.) > Specifically, I want to have a running system keep running even if > the disk dies and needs to be hot-swapped and rebuilt. > > Is there any decent controller support in the stable branch? Will > there be soon? Any recommendations for external SCSI-2 boxes which look > like disks externally? > > > -- > Sean T. Lamont, President / Chief NetNerd, Abstract Software, Inc. (ServNet) > - Internet access * WWW hosting * TCP/IP * UNIX * NEXTSTEP * WWW Development - > email: lamont@abstractsoft.com WWW: http://www.serv.net > "...There's no moral, it's just a lot of stuff that happens". - H. Simpson >