From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Apr 3 03:01:38 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CB53F16A401 for ; Mon, 3 Apr 2006 03:01:38 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) Received: from cain.gsoft.com.au (cain.gsoft.com.au [203.31.81.10]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5280043D45 for ; Mon, 3 Apr 2006 03:01:34 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) Received: from inchoate.gsoft.com.au (inchoate.gsoft.com.au [203.31.81.21]) (authenticated bits=0) by cain.gsoft.com.au (8.13.5/8.13.4) with ESMTP id k3331BkR029598 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Mon, 3 Apr 2006 12:31:16 +0930 (CST) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) From: "Daniel O'Connor" To: Darren Pilgrim Date: Mon, 3 Apr 2006 12:30:59 +0930 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.1 References: <20060401110818.U54953@localhost> <200604031043.12465.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> <443088B2.4060503@bitfreak.org> In-Reply-To: <443088B2.4060503@bitfreak.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="nextPart17601616.1iihZPVM5J"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200604031231.07632.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> X-Spam-Score: -1.163 () ALL_TRUSTED,AWL X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.56 on 203.31.81.10 Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org, Matthias Andree , hartzell@alerce.com Subject: Re: SATA RAID: Adaptec 1420SA, Promise TX4300? X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 03 Apr 2006 03:01:38 -0000 --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--