SATA RAID: Adaptec 1420SA, Promise TX4300?

[Daniel O'Connor]

On Monday 03 April 2006 12:00, Darren Pilgrim wrote:
> > If you are using a cheap RAID like Promise TX2 or just about any onboard
> > IDE/SATA RAID that FreeBSD supports the array can be used on ANY system.
> > (Except for booting)
>
> More concisely, is this because said cheap RAID controllers all use the
> ataraid framework and therefore the metadata stored on disk is inherently
> understood by FreeBSD?

That's the wrong way around :)
They all use different metadata and FreeBSD supports them (for writing) when 
Soren does his magic.

Once the metadata is groked then they will work on any IDE card except that on 
boot the array won't be recognised by the card BIOS.

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