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Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org, Matthias Andree <matthias.andree@gmx.de>,
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Subject: Re: SATA RAID: Adaptec 1420SA, Promise TX4300?
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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?