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Date:      Tue, 27 Apr 2010 12:07:13 +0930
From:      "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au>
To:        lev@freebsd.org
Cc:        mav@freebsd.org, freebsd-current@freebsd.org, Pawel Jakub Dawidek <pjd@freebsd.org>, "M. Warner Losh" <imp@bsdimp.com>, freebsd-geom@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Switchover to CAM ATA?
Message-ID:  <035A6E1D-6537-476B-9427-52072E60C41D@gsoft.com.au>
In-Reply-To: <609355278.20100426234808@serebryakov.spb.ru>
References:  <4BD06BD9.6030401@FreeBSD.org> <20100426.103327.319083499807534535.imp@bsdimp.com> <20100426181209.GB3012@garage.freebsd.pl> <20100426.121946.506212773266921087.imp@bsdimp.com> <20100426191012.GA1711@garage.freebsd.pl> <609355278.20100426234808@serebryakov.spb.ru>

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On 27/04/2010, at 5:18 AM, Lev Serebryakov wrote:

> Hello, Pawel.
> You wrote 26 =C1=D0=D2=C5=CC=D1 2010 =C7., 23:10:12:
>=20
>> You most likely got it right, I'm just saying creating separate GEOM
>> class for each metadata format is wrong direction. :)
> Does  ataraid  translations and checksuming (in case of RAID5) now or
> it configures chipsets only?
>=20
>  All  these  ``raids'' are known as ``soft raids'' or ``fake raids'',
> but  what  does  do  real  work  -- BIOS or driver (Ataraid in case of
> FreeBSD)?

Both..
ataraid does it when FreeBSD is running but the BIOS does it before then =
so boot0, the loader, et al can read the disk without having an =
underlying driver.

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