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From: Doug White <dwhite@gumbysoft.com>
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On Mon, 2 Feb 2004, Putinas Piliponis wrote:

> just playing with raids on 5.2.1-RC
> atacontrol create RAID1 ad6 ad6
> ar0 created
> atacontrol detach 3
> gives panic

Feeding invalid configurations to ATA RAID is a good way to end up with a
bloody foot.  It would be nice to sanity-check something like that,
though.

ATARAID is known to not be wonderfully stable in the face of bizarre
setups and failure; its a known limitation. The future plan is to replace
the current framework with something more robust.

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