single drive at Intel ICH8R - Samsung SP2504C
single drive at Promise EX8350 - Samsung HD501LJ
raid5 at Promise EX8350 4x WD10EACS
single drive at Promise EX8350 - WD10EACS
raid0 at Promise EX8350 2x WD10EACS

A bettergvinum raid5 guide?
Source: http://unix.derkeiler.com/Newsgroups/comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc/200612/msg00343.html
From: Torfinn Ingolfsen <tingo@xxxxxxxx> Date: Mon, 18 Dec 2006 22:31:01 +0100 Hello, I am trying to learn a bit more on how gvinum works out in a daytoday situation. For this purpose, I have a server which has four identical disks in addition to ad0, on which I have installed FreeBSD 6.x. It looks like this: root@kgfil# uname a FreeBSD kgfil.kg4.no 6.2PRERELEASE FreeBSD 6.2PRERELEASE #9: Tue Oct 3 23:08:46 CEST 2006 root@xxxxxxxxxxxxx:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/FIL60 amd64 root@kgfil# atacontrol list ATA channel 0: Master: ad0 <SAMSUNG SP0822N/WA10033> ATA/ATAPI revision 7 Slave: no device present ATA channel 1: Master: acd0 <NEC DVD RW ND3550A/1.05> ATA/ATAPI revision 0 Slave: no device present ATA channel 2: Master: ad4 <SAMSUNG SP2504C/VT10033> Serial ATA II Slave: no device present ATA channel 3: Master: ad6 <SAMSUNG SP2504C/VT10033> Serial ATA II Slave: no device present ATA channel 4: Master: ad8 <SAMSUNG SP2504C/VT10033> Serial ATA II Slave: no device present ATA channel 5: Master: ad10 <SAMSUNG SP2504C/VT10033> Serial ATA II Slave: no device present As you can see, the ad0 disk is PATA, and the other disks are SATA. I have read the Handbook chapter on (g)vinum: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO88591/books/handbook/vinumvinum.html I wonder; are there any guides on setting up gvinum out there that are easier to follow than this? I tried googling, but only found articles on hardware raid, and on software raid1, which isn't what I want to do. A stepbystep guide for setting up 4 disks in a raid5 plex would have been welcome. A bettergvinum raid5 guide? 1
A bettergvinum raid5 guide? Torfinn Ingolfsen, Norway.