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Subject: Re: Setting up gmirror
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> with regards to Intel MatrixRAID, here you go:
>
> http://wiki.freebsd.org/JeremyChadwick/ATA_issues_and_troubleshooting
>
> And yes, these are FreeBSD problems, but the severity is so high that
> there is a very good chance you will lose your data in the case of a
> failure.  Simply put, don't risk it.

BIOS RAIDs are software RAIDs. FreeBSD "driver" for this is software RAID 
too, just like gmirror but worse and less portable.

simply doesn't make sense.