Subject: Re: Raid sollution wanted
To: Matthias Scheler <tron@zhadum.de>
From: Thor Lancelot Simon <tls@rek.tjls.com>
List: port-i386
Date: 04/08/2002 16:27:34
On Mon, Apr 08, 2002 at 06:21:04PM +0000, Matthias Scheler wrote:
> Hello,
>
> can somebody recomment me a reasonable priced RAID 1 sollution for
> NetBSD-i386? I want to setup a system with a single mirrored disks.
> I would like to avoid raid(4) because booting from a mirrored disk
> is still not supported properly there (e.g. in "installboot").
I can recommend the Adaptec 2400A with IDE disks. Unlike other "IDE RAID"
adapters, it actually does RAID in hardware and it actually works.
--
Thor Lancelot Simon tls@rek.tjls.com
But as he knew no bad language, he had called him all the names of common
objects that he could think of, and had screamed: "You lamp! You towel! You
plate!" and so on. --Sigmund Freud