From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "William K. Josephson" To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Subject: Re: [9fans] disk mirroring Message-ID: <20010901022219.B4040@honk.eecs.harvard.edu> References: <20010831224649.CBC3B199E4@mail.cse.psu.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20010831224649.CBC3B199E4@mail.cse.psu.edu>; from geoff@collyer.net on Fri, Aug 31, 2001 at 03:46:45PM -0700 Date: Sat, 1 Sep 2001 02:22:19 -0400 Topicbox-Message-UUID: e83e9f4e-eac9-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 On Fri, Aug 31, 2001 at 03:46:45PM -0700, geoff@collyer.net wrote: > Does anybody have experience with the fancier Promis IDE controllers? > One line (FastTrak?) claims to implement drive mirroring, but I > don't know if this requires OS intervention, or if it just works > once you configure it via the Promis BIOS. The version with which I am familiar require configuration through the BIOS and an appropriate driver. I think both FreeBSD and Linux have a driver now. -WJ