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Date:      Tue, 27 Apr 2010 13:11:22 -0600
From:      Scott Long <scottl@samsco.org>
To:        Luke Dean <LukeD@pobox.com>
Cc:        Alexander Motin <mav@freebsd.org>, FreeBSD-Current <freebsd-current@freebsd.org>, freebsd-geom@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Switchover to CAM ATA?
Message-ID:  <D1A9680F-0DC1-4B22-AF0B-C6A73F24CED3@samsco.org>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.BSF.2.00.1004262226210.27456@border.lukas.is-a-geek.org>
References:  <4BD06BD9.6030401@FreeBSD.org> <alpine.BSF.2.00.1004262226210.27456@border.lukas.is-a-geek.org>

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On Apr 26, 2010, at 11:39 PM, Luke Dean wrote:
>=20
>=20
> On Thu, 22 Apr 2010, Alexander Motin wrote:
>=20
>> So what is the public opinion: Is the lack of ataraid(4) fatal or we =
can
>> live without it?
>=20
> Hardware mirroring is very important to me.  It's the only solution =
I'm aware of for realtime protection from drive failure in systems that =
boot multiple operating systems.

ATARAID doesn't do hardware mirroring.  If you need that feature, buy an =
MPT card or a real RAID controller.

Scott




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