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Date:      Mon, 22 Sep 2008 15:03:38 +0100
From:      Dieter <freebsd@sopwith.solgatos.com>
To:        freebsd-drivers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: [RELENG_6] ATARAID oddity 
Message-ID:  <200809222203.WAA20882@sopwith.solgatos.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 22 Sep 2008 10:51:01 PDT." <48D7DB05.6050907@miralink.com> 

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> I.e. if you insert a drive that was part of a volume from an Adaptec 
> RAID controller into another system, the new system will attempt to 
> treat that disk as though it were associated with a HOST Raid controller.
> 
> I don't think that this is the desired behavior.  Even if the host raid 
> meta-data is detected, the system shouldn't attempt to treat the disk as 
> part of a HOST raid set without the appropriate controller in the system.

Even if there *is* an appropriate controller in the system, presumably it
isn't going to work unless the disk is connected to that controller.

We want the ability to migrate a disk from Adaptec to some other
controller without screwy things happening.



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