SATA RAID: Adaptec 1420SA, Promise TX4300?

Darren Pilgrim darren.pilgrim at bitfreak.org
Mon Apr 3 02:30:11 UTC 2006


Daniel O'Connor wrote:
> On Monday 03 April 2006 04:39, George Hartzell wrote:
>> With raid systems that use proprietary metadata I'd need to find a
>> similar controller to hook them up to.
> 
> Actually no..
> 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?



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