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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.wildstar.net!cancer.vividnet.com!hunter.premier.net!news.mathworks.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!bloom-beacon.mit.edu!bone.think.com!bone!fitz From: fitz@think.com (Tom Fitzgerald) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc Subject: Re: Can BSDI 2.0 handle 9GB SCSI Drives? Date: 07 May 1996 23:34:12 GMT Organization: Thinking Machines Corporation Lines: 23 Message-ID: <FITZ.96May7193412@rog.think.com> References: <4mevk2$a2o@news.hal-pc.org> <4mmkdg$jsb@strange.dfwmm.net> <Dr0vu0.3pC@ritz.mordor.com> <318FBD8B.4105CE4F@lambert.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: rog.think.com Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org> sez: > Technically, it's a volume spanning driver which supports > mirroring. It has also been used (by Rod Grimes) with > spindle sync to support true striping. > > Without parity, ECC, or hamming codes, it's not real RAID. To get a little more informal about it, this comes from the "RAID Guide" at http://www.invincible.com/rguide.htm. # RAID 0: Striping # # RAID level 0 refers to striping data across multiple disks without any # redundant information. RAID level 0 was not defined by the Berkeley # engineers but has become a commonly used term. # So you're both half right. -- Tom Fitzgerald Thinking Machines Corp, Bedford MA, USA A3FC3545C031E735 fitz@think.com (617)276-0400 x4848 3DE72FB31F6028D1