Date: Mon, 3 Apr 2006 12:30:59 +0930 From: "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au> To: Darren Pilgrim <darren.pilgrim@bitfreak.org> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org, Matthias Andree <matthias.andree@gmx.de>, hartzell@alerce.com Subject: Re: SATA RAID: Adaptec 1420SA, Promise TX4300? Message-ID: <200604031231.07632.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> In-Reply-To: <443088B2.4060503@bitfreak.org> References: <20060401110818.U54953@localhost> <200604031043.12465.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> <443088B2.4060503@bitfreak.org>
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--nextPart17601616.1iihZPVM5J Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline On Monday 03 April 2006 12:00, Darren Pilgrim wrote: > > 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? That's the wrong way around :) They all use different metadata and FreeBSD supports them (for writing) whe= n=20 Soren does his magic. Once the metadata is groked then they will work on any IDE card except that= on=20 boot the array won't be recognised by the card BIOS. =2D-=20 Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C --nextPart17601616.1iihZPVM5J Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2.2 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQBEMI/z5ZPcIHs/zowRApuZAJ9jtTHw9iO1Qun4m1QaDgQLmvLCfACgn5Ke KwCYifzKjn1i7Cab2naP96E= =+ocJ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart17601616.1iihZPVM5J--
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