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Alexander Motin wrote:
> The main regression of the new mode is a lack of ataraid alternative, to
> support cheap BIOS-based ATA RAIDs. If somebody has time and wish to
> port that code from inside ata(4) into GEOM module, to make it work over
> CAM also, I would appreciate that and propose a help, if needed.

May be it would be easier to just teach gmirror, gstripe and gconcat to
handle ATA RAIDs metadata formats, to not duplicate and support the rest
of code.

-- 
Alexander Motin