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Subject: Re: LSI MegaRAID SCSI 320-0 support
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Doug White <dwhite@gumbysoft.com> writes:
> Well thats curious. The IBM X335 I've been playing with came with a
> SiI0680-based (parallel IDE) MegaRAID card. I figured ataraid would pick
> it up, but if it emulates a SCSI amr card, thats rather interesting.
> I'll have to experiment with that. :)

ataraid only handles software RAID (i.e. cheap "ATA RAID controllers"
that are actually plain ATA controllers with a BIOS chip that does
software RAID).  All real ATA RAID controllers I know of (that do RAID
in hardware) present a SCSI interface to the system.

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