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Date:      Tue, 27 Apr 2010 13:11:22 -0600
From:      Scott Long <scottl@samsco.org>
To:        Luke Dean <LukeD@pobox.com>
Cc:        Alexander Motin <mav@freebsd.org>, FreeBSD-Current <freebsd-current@freebsd.org>, freebsd-geom@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Switchover to CAM ATA?
Message-ID:  <D1A9680F-0DC1-4B22-AF0B-C6A73F24CED3@samsco.org>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.BSF.2.00.1004262226210.27456@border.lukas.is-a-geek.org>
References:  <4BD06BD9.6030401@FreeBSD.org> <alpine.BSF.2.00.1004262226210.27456@border.lukas.is-a-geek.org>

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On Apr 26, 2010, at 11:39 PM, Luke Dean wrote:
> 
> 
> On Thu, 22 Apr 2010, Alexander Motin wrote:
> 
>> So what is the public opinion: Is the lack of ataraid(4) fatal or we can
>> live without it?
> 
> Hardware mirroring is very important to me.  It's the only solution I'm aware of for realtime protection from drive failure in systems that boot multiple operating systems.

ATARAID doesn't do hardware mirroring.  If you need that feature, buy an MPT card or a real RAID controller.

Scott




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