ATA mkIII first official patches - please test!

Søren Schmidt sos at DeepCore.dk
Sat Feb 5 03:40:11 PST 2005


Ben Stuyts wrote:
> 
> On 3 Feb 2005, at 21:52, Søren Schmidt wrote:
> 
>> o       ATA RAID can only read metadata not write them. This means that
>>         arrays can be picked up from the BIOS, but they cannot be created
>>         from FreeBSD. This is being worked on for the final release as is
>>         RAID5 support for Promise/Highpoing/SiI controllers.
> 
> 
> Will RAID mirrors built using atacontrol on standard ata controllers 
> still work? Specifically in my case on 5.3-stable:

Not as is, but its easily added, uncomment line 597 in ata-raid.c and it 
will be picked up as before...

-Søren




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