Re: Software RAID1 with atacontrol

From: Dag-Erling Smørgrav <des_at_des.no>
Date: Mon, 27 Sep 2004 12:29:25 +0200
Thomas Pornin <maillist+fc_at_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
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Dag-Erling Smørgrav - des_at_des.no
Received on Mon Sep 27 2004 - 08:29:32 UTC

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