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At Sun, 08 May 2005 08:35:38 -0600,
Scott Long wrote:
> > According to the documentation this is not the case and the XOR
> > calcs are done in hardware on the onboard HPT 601.
> Maybe I'm confused and we are talking about different cards.

RocketRAID 1820 is a plain SATA card with software RAID.
1820A is 1820 with HPT601 XOR engine.