Re: Strange ATARAID format?

Am Dienstag, den 06.01.2009, 05:34 +0000 schrieb Martin Sandaas:
> Wicked!

Nice.

> 
> 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?

Exactly.

Heinz

>         
>         
>         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.
>         
>         
>         
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