Subject: Re: RAIDframe questions
To: None <netbsd-users@netbsd.org>
From: Matt Doughty <mdoughty@japan.ea.com>
List: netbsd-users
Date: 06/19/2002 03:30:11
On Tue, Jun 18, 2002 at 02:14:55PM -0400, Jeff Flowers wrote:
> > >   1) The smallest component will be the limiting factor on the size of
> the
> > > RAID set.
> > >   2) There may be detrimental performance implications to mixing disks
> of
> > > different speeds.
> >
> > That's fine -  I'm nursing an old SS4 with twin 2Gb SCSIs,
> > so it's not going to be setting any speed records anyway - just a
> > sacrificial lamb until I get my head round how RF works, then
> > I'll try it on my main servers.
> 
> You just tweaked my interest with this last statement. I had assumed that
> you would need a special RAID card in order to make use of RAIDframe. So can
> I use RAIDframe on any kind of SCSI or IDE interface, provided I have two or
> more disks?
> 
> 

yep. It is software raid: 
man raid
man raidctl

--Matt