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Not. Happy.

This 3Ware Esclade 5000-series controller will only create a mirror from identical disks. Not identical *size* disks, but identical disks. Subversion number and all. So, now I’ve got two Western Digital WD800JB disks that I can’t create a mirror with, because they were made at different times of the year. Quick fix is to buy a new 80GB, but what do I do with the old one then?

Blah.

In good news, the colocation place looks really nice. I think my server will end up there. They pass all the tests: run by a geek who’s been around, been in business for a while, fair number of servers, nice guy, not-RBL’d, well connected, etc.

So, off to fight with the disk controller.

UPDATE: Now FreeBSD 5.2 dumped core when trying to boot in order to install. This might be because I don’t have any arrays defined. I wonder if I have a set of any old disks I can try this with. Hrm.