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Subject: Re[2]: SI3112A SATA controller RAID support?
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Hello Søren,

Sunday, February 15, 2004, 3:12:49 PM, you wrote:


>> I'm wondering if there's no RAID support for the SI3112A in current
>> as my drives in a RAID1 array show up as ad4 and ad6 but not as ar0 in
>> the setup. So if I want to use those SATA drives in a RAID1 array, do
>> I really need to get another controller (presumably Highpoint based)
>> (software RAID is out of question)?
> All the ATA "RAID controllers" in this category are software based.
> Support is depended on the BIOS type, as all that is needed is to know
> the format of the RAID metadata stored on disk. Currently only HPT and
> Promise formats are known, but I have code for AMI and Intel in the 
> works (but far from usable yet)...

Then how come I can rebuild arrays on those pseudo RAID controllers but
not those created with atacontrol directly (i.e. pure software)? (Or am
I just doing something wrong?)


Best regards,
 Gabriel