Re: Strange ATARAID format?
"Martin Sandaas" <[email protected]> Tue, 6 Jan 2009 05:34:55 +0000
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Wicked! Thanks for all your advice! Cheers! Martin On Mon, Jan 5, 2009 at 10:55 PM, Phillip Susi <[email protected]> wrote: > Martin Sandaas wrote: > >> Thank you! >> >> That did the trick... >> I used "dmraid -f via -rE" to remove the via meta-data completely (as it >> must be from my previous motherboard). >> >> But another question popped up as a result of this: >> Does this mean that hardware is irrelevant? That I could use the VIA >> setup >> on any of the supported controllers? >> > > It means that hardware is irrelevant to dmraid. You don't even need a > supported raid hardware for dmraid to access the disks. In other words, you > can plug your disks into any old standard sata/ide system and get your data > with dmraid. The correct hardware is still required for bios support to > boot from the array of course, as well as by the Windows drivers. > > > _______________________________________________ > Ataraid-list mailing list > [email protected] > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/ataraid-list > _______________________________________________ Ataraid-list mailing list [email protected] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/ataraid-list