Date: Mon, 27 Sep 2004 12:29:25 +0200 From: des@des.no (=?iso-8859-1?q?Dag-Erling_Sm=F8rgrav?=) To: Thomas Pornin <maillist+fc@bolet.org> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Software RAID1 with atacontrol Message-ID: <xzppt48uhru.fsf@dwp.des.no> In-Reply-To: <20040927094602.GA17898@gnah.bolet.org> (Thomas Pornin's message of "Mon, 27 Sep 2004 11:46:03 %2B0200") References: <20040927094602.GA17898@gnah.bolet.org>
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Thomas Pornin <maillist+fc@bolet.org> writes: > -- some (cheap) RAID extension cards are just ATA controllers with a > special boot ROM which understands the metadata stored on the disks and > describing how the disks are grouped in RAID arrays; This is actually the case for *most* ATA RAID controllers. If you don't care about BIOS support, you're probably better off using gmirror(8), which is a lot more flexible than ataraid. DES --=20 Dag-Erling Sm=F8rgrav - des@des.no
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