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From: "Gary D. Margiotta" <gary@tbe.net>
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Subject: Re: Intel ICH5R Raid support
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> Well, if you have suggestions on how to improve the manpage, let me
> know.  Basically read support lets you use the RAID, but creation,
> rebuilt etc must be done from the controller BIOS.  With write support
> you can do all this from atacontrol(8).
>
> - Christian
>

No, the man page is laid out properly, I think it's my fault that I missed 
the distinction between BIOS usability and atacontrol(8) usability.  I 
think the former is what I was looking for, and for some reason it didn't 
jump out and smack me in the head when I was reading it over the first 
time.

I just want to be able to set up the RAID in the BIOS, and have FBSD 
recognize the array as just one disk and go from there.  I've not used 
atacontrol much, and although it might be much more flexible and better 
to use, I haven't had time to play around with it for my setups.

Thanks again.

-Gary