Jukka Marin writes:
> On Wed, Nov 29, 2000 at 08:37:55AM -0800, Jason R Thorpe wrote:
> > On Wed, Nov 29, 2000 at 04:04:56PM +0200, Jukka Marin wrote:
> > 
> >  > The recent pentium motherboards have some kind of a built-in IDE RAID
> >  > controller (so I was told).  Someone said this controller looks like
> >  > a regular IDE controller to the OS.  (Does it?)
> >  > 
> >  > Does NetBSD 1.5 support this RAID system?
> > 
> > Well, it's difficult to know without knowing precisely which chip
> > it is...
> 
> I'll ask again when I get the hardware :-)
> 
> Meanwhile, can I use NetBSD software RAID on bootdisk already? 

Yup... I think the installboot stuff is missing a few things, but 
other than that it's supposed to work.. (I havn't tried it myself.. 
LukeM had been working on this stuff...)

> Ie. can
> I have two X GB disks on my machine and use mirroring on all partitions
> (except swap, obviously :-) ?

Umm... If you're going to the trouble of mirroring stuff, you should mirror
swap as well... mirroring swap works just fine...

Later...

Greg Oster