Date: Sun, 02 Apr 2006 19:30:10 -0700 From: Darren Pilgrim <darren.pilgrim@bitfreak.org> To: Daniel O'Connor <doconnor@gsoft.com.au> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org, Matthias Andree <matthias.andree@gmx.de>, hartzell@alerce.com Subject: Re: SATA RAID: Adaptec 1420SA, Promise TX4300? Message-ID: <443088B2.4060503@bitfreak.org> In-Reply-To: <200604031043.12465.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> References: <20060401110818.U54953@localhost> <200604022255.03855.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> <17456.8555.346837.713452@satchel.alerce.com> <200604031043.12465.doconnor@gsoft.com.au>
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Daniel O'Connor wrote: > On Monday 03 April 2006 04:39, George Hartzell wrote: >> With raid systems that use proprietary metadata I'd need to find a >> similar controller to hook them up to. > > Actually no.. > If you are using a cheap RAID like Promise TX2 or just about any onboard > IDE/SATA RAID that FreeBSD supports the array can be used on ANY system. > (Except for booting) More concisely, is this because said cheap RAID controllers all use the ataraid framework and therefore the metadata stored on disk is inherently understood by FreeBSD?
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