On Tue, 2 May 2006, Alex Dumitriu wrote:

> Greetings all,
>
> I am wondering if there is any reason not to create a RAIDFrame set
> that mixes and matches SATA and PATA drives. Specifically, I want to
> create a RAID5 volume comprised of 3 PATA and 2 SATA drives (all
> drives will have their own dedicated channel... no slaves here). Are
> there negative performace implications? Will I have a problem if (say)
> a PATA drive fails and I replace it in the future with a SATA drive?
> (I can't see any issues here, but maybe I'm just not imaginative
> enough).

 	I've done this fine with RAID0 on PATA & SATA and in one case
 	PATA and SCSI (salvaged machine, with whatever disks available)
 	Would expect it to work fine.

> Also, while I'm on the topic, will I have problems labling and
> newfs'ing a 1.2TB volume? What is the current FS size limit (on NetBSD
> 3)?

 	Someone else gets to field that one :)

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