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Date: Tue, 23 Jan 2007 01:35:06 -0600
From: Damian Wiest <dwiest@vailsys.com>
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Subject: Re: hardware mirrors recognized as individual disks in fbsd
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On Mon, Jan 22, 2007 at 07:16:59PM -0600, Damian Wiest wrote:

[snip]

> Real hardware RAID chips/cards tend to be expensive, 
> proprietary, don't require an OS driver and include a battery backup
> system for data in the RAID cache should the system lose power.

I don't know what I was thinking, of course the hardware RAID systems
require drivers.

-Damian