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From: "Mike Jakubik" <mikej@rogers.com>
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Subject: Re: No RAID for VT8237?
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David O'Brien said:

> There are many new SATA "RAID" controllers that our ATA driver doesn't
> yet understand the metadata.  Soren is working on support for these newer
> chipsets.

Understood, but what im saying is that a list of supported ones would be
very useful when trying to decide what hardware to buy. The chipsets are
listed as supported in the ata man page, while there is no ar man page,
and no information in the hardware notes.

Thanks.