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Subject: Re: Switchover to CAM ATA?
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On Apr 26, 2010, at 11:39 PM, Luke Dean wrote:
>=20
>=20
> On Thu, 22 Apr 2010, Alexander Motin wrote:
>=20
>> So what is the public opinion: Is the lack of ataraid(4) fatal or we =
can
>> live without it?
>=20
> 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