<$100 SATA RAID Card 5.3 compatible

[Mike Loiterman]

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Danny Howard <mailto:dannyman at toldme.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 15, 2005 at 07:37:24PM -0600, Mike Loiterman wrote:
>> I tried following the instructions at:
>> http://people.freebsd.org/~rse/mirror/ and couldn't make it work.
>> 
>> I ended up installing a minimal installation on one disk, reooting
>> to the new install, doing atacontrol create RAID1 ad4 ad6, then
>> rebooting to the install CD and installing into ar0.  This seems to
>> have worked. 
> 
> This all sounds extremely familiar.  I did all of this, and it made me
> very quesy.  So, I ripped it out and tried again.
> 
>> Is your solution better?
> 
> You can deliver your own opinion, my resolution is at:
> http://dannyman.toldme.com/2005/01/24/freebsd-howto-gmirror-system/
> 
> Cheers,
> -danny

I was able to make the atacontrol method work flawlessly via a simulated
disk failure (formated it and did a atacontrol rebuild).  Is gmirror more
reliable?

I still don't understand gmirror, how it works and how to properly set one
up.  That's probably why I'm resistant to working with it.

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