Subject: Re: question about support for RAID feature of HPT370
To: Aaron Dodd <paulsomm@paulsomm.com>
From: Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.lip6.fr>
List: netbsd-help
Date: 03/02/2001 20:49:53
On Thu, Mar 01, 2001 at 11:17:41PM -0500, Aaron Dodd wrote:
> Hello.  I see that NetBSD 1.5 supports the HPT370 UDMA/ATA100 RAID 
> Controller but only when the disks are accessed individually. I was 
> just curious as to if NetBSD is planned to support this device in 
> RAID mode.

You can use NetBSD's RAIDframe, which provide software RAID.
The only difference is that you'll have to tell the BIOS to boot from
the second disk if the first one fail and you have to reboot.

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Manuel Bouyer, LIP6, Universite Paris VI.           Manuel.Bouyer@lip6.fr
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