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Date:      Mon, 27 Sep 2004 12:29:25 +0200
From:      des@des.no (=?iso-8859-1?q?Dag-Erling_Sm=F8rgrav?=)
To:        Thomas Pornin <maillist+fc@bolet.org>
Cc:        freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Software RAID1 with atacontrol
Message-ID:  <xzppt48uhru.fsf@dwp.des.no>
In-Reply-To: <20040927094602.GA17898@gnah.bolet.org> (Thomas Pornin's message of "Mon, 27 Sep 2004 11:46:03 %2B0200")
References:  <20040927094602.GA17898@gnah.bolet.org>

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Thomas Pornin <maillist+fc@bolet.org> writes:
> -- some (cheap) RAID extension cards are just ATA controllers with a
> special boot ROM which understands the metadata stored on the disks and
> describing how the disks are grouped in RAID arrays;

This is actually the case for *most* ATA RAID controllers.

If you don't care about BIOS support, you're probably better off using
gmirror(8), which is a lot more flexible than ataraid.

DES
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Dag-Erling Sm=F8rgrav - des@des.no



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