Installation:

Copy swraid.device To DEVS:

Usage:

Create a file ENVARC:swraid.device.xml using either PrefsObjectEditor or
NotePad. An "example" configuration file is provided in the archive.

The device supports two types of RAID:
 - mirror (reads are striped across disks)
 - stripe (both reads and writes are striped across disks)

There is a hardcoded limit of 32 units in a RAID array.

"mirror":

Next you should create identical (same position, size, device name, etc.)
partitions on all harddrives (make sure that AutoMount is disabled).

Mount the partitions using:
Mounter device=swraid.device unit=<swraid unit> <device name:>

F.e.:
Mounter device=swraid.device unit=0 RAID0:

Now the partitions should be visible on WB and you can do a "Quick Format"
on each and one of them.

"stripe":

If you use striping either use DOSDrivers (MediaToolBox can be used to output
these, just remember to multiply BlocksPerTrack by the amount of disks in your
RAID), or mount the harddrive first using a dummy mountlist such as the RAID0
that's included in the archive and then either format the disk from WB or use
MediaToolBox to setup an RDB on the disk (select "swraid.device" in the devices
list).

Bugs:

This is an ALPHA release that has seen little testing so there may be some.
Don't use for important data for now. You have been warned.

Changes:

52.2 (1-Nov-2007)
 - Fixed memory leaks on unit open failure
 - Implemented AbortIO() same as in diskimage.device/flite.device
 - RAID preferences program

52.1 (29-10-2007)
 - First released version

 PERMSSN    UID  GID    PACKED    SIZE  RATIO METHOD CRC     STAMP          NAME
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[generic]                12212   36148  33.8% -lh5- 3908 Nov  1 12:55 swraid_device/RAID
[generic]                 8237   10708  76.9% -lh5- 396d Nov  1 12:55 swraid_device/RAID.info
[generic]                  251     483  52.0% -lh5- 0866 Oct 24 00:17 swraid_device/RAID0
[generic]                 3848    7325  52.5% -lh5- 703f Nov  1 13:05 swraid_device/RAID0.info
[generic]                 7143   14104  50.6% -lh5- bbcc Nov  1 13:11 swraid_device/swraid.device
[generic]                  344    1810  19.0% -lh5- ae52 Oct 29 14:43 swraid_device/swraid.device.xml
[generic]                  944    1753  53.9% -lh5- f940 Nov  1 13:10 swraid_device/swraid_device.readme
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 Total         7 files   32979   72331  45.6%            Nov  1 09:32