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Subject: Re: SATA RAID: Adaptec 1420SA, Promise TX4300?
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Daniel O'Connor writes:
 > 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)

Cool.  Learned something new.  Thanks.

g.