![]() The first step was to mark the zip drives as raid volumes. ![]() The man page for softraid(4) is sufficient to get started, although I did add some suggested extra steps just to make sure. Softraid is enabled in current snapshots, so there was no need to compile a custom kernel. Unfortunately SMP isn't supported by OpenBSD on the PPC platform yet, but everything else was detected and functioning correctly. Just to be difficult, I dragged an old dual 450mhz Apple Power Mac out of storage and connected a USB and IDE iomega Zip drive to function as my raid volumes. I have been using bioctl with hardware raid and was quickly won over by the elegance of the tools, and I looked forward to managing software raid with the same simplicity. ![]() It had been a few months since I had experimented with softraid in OpenBSD, so I though I would give it a try and see how far it had progressed.
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