Using a RAID-card with FreeBSD

[Johan Paul]

> Yes, the RAIDing is completely transparent to the OS. You don't even 
> have to reboot the machine if the disks are hot-swappable. Just pull the 
> dead one out, install the new one, and the controller will bring it up 
> to speed. RAID-1 is much faster to rebuild than RAID-5 (just a casual 
> observation; I'm not sure if that's a hard-and-fast rule).

I just wanted to let you all know that I succesfully installed FreeBSD 
4.8R with Promise FastTrak TX2 on a RAID1 using two IDE drives. Works 
like a charm all the way from installation! FreeBSD sees the RAID1 
arrays as "ar0" and tells me that the two disks are 'READY' :)

It's so nice to know that it actually works and one can be much more 
safe now than with software RAID... And the card wasn't even expensive. 
I just have to say that I had my doubts in the beginning, but luckely 
they were in vain!

-- 
Johan