xRAID disks....

[Wojciech Puchar]

>
> I recently removed one pair of disks from a windows "hardware :)" RAID 
> controller, and upon inserting it into a newly built FreeBSD system, it was 
> immediately detected by the ar driver, and messages started coming in, like

is there actually any difference in ar and gmirror/gstripe except that ar 
is simpler, takes only whole drives and use "hardware RAID ;)" compatible 
headers ?

> make the disks forget about their previous RAID-life:
>
> atacontrol delete ar0
>
> Have a look at man atacontrol. I have not tried it, but it is probably worth 
> a try.