In article ,
David Steward wrote:

> After a scare over a hard disk failure in my wife's iMac I bought
> another new 80gig drive. The iMac is now fixed and I have a spare drive.
> If I install it in my twin1GHZ G4 what software do I need to set up a
> mirroring system with my present drive?
>
> David


Softraid would work fine.
Mind you there is a slight speed hit from mirroring.

I used to use a striped array with softraid, but even though I am not
doing that anymore, I still use their harddrive drivers.
Much better performance than apple's drivers.

On Sat, 08 Nov 2003 06:43:01 GMT,
Ernie Leimkuhler (ernie@stagesmith.com) wrote:
> In article ,
> David Steward wrote:
>
>> After a scare over a hard disk failure in my wife's iMac I bought
>> another new 80gig drive. The iMac is now fixed and I have a spare drive.
>> If I install it in my twin1GHZ G4 what software do I need to set up a
>> mirroring system with my present drive?
>>
>> David
>
>
> Softraid would work fine.
> Mind you there is a slight speed hit from mirroring.
>
> I used to use a striped array with softraid, but even though I am not
> doing that anymore, I still use their harddrive drivers.
> Much better performance than apple's drivers.

You cannot boot from a RAID1 mirror created using Softraid's drivers.
You can boot from a RAID1 mirror made using Apple's drivers. So for
mirroring, Apple's drivers are of greater utility than Softraid's.

--
Bev A. Kupf
"The lyfe so short, the craft so long to lerne" -- Chaucer
Jonny Wilko - my kind of hero!!!!!!!!!