On Tue, 13 Feb 2007, Volkmar Seifert wrote:

>> First let me say that I have had excellent experiences with raidframe.
>> Every one of these good experiences has involved using SCSI disks.
>>
>> Every time I've used raidframe with some form of ATA disk there has been
>> trouble. And now I've had another such experience to report.
>
> Well, I have just set up a machine running two ATA-Disks in RAID-1 using RAIDFrame, and it
> "just worked(tm)", right out of the box, so generally speaking there should not be any
> problems, no matter what system is used, as long as each hardware component in itself is
> working fine with netbsd.
>
> Good luck, even if this mail probably was not of much help.

 	Just to chime in on a datapoint - I have a dozen or so
 	machines all running raidframe RAID1 on IDE and SATA disks,
 	from ancient 10GB disks in a PIII/550 to WD raptors in
 	AMD64 X2 rackmounts.

 	The only issue I have is if the powerfails the parity
 	rebuild takes _forever_, which could probably be mitigated
 	a little by raidframe splitting the parity clean flag into
 	a flag per disk section.

 	The only NetBSD machines I have which do not run raidframe are
 	laptops (single disk) and a couple of test machines I really
 	do not care about.
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