Ali/Uli 528(8|9) BIOSRAID?

[Heinz Mauelshagen]

On Wed, Sep 12, 2007 at 05:33:33PM +0200, Cosimo Guglielmucci wrote:
> How to retrive metadata format specs?
> Can I help with my mainboard ?
> I'm going to read some previous posts.


One costly approach would be to try retrieving the last Megabyte off of
the end of each device in your RAID set plus the size in sectors of each
involved device.  BIOS properties for the device woud help to.

But this would be just a metadata sample involving painfull reengineering
rather than basing a format handler on vendor specs which is the preferred
way to go. That's what my quote below was aiming at.

Heinz

> 
>   On Wed, Mar 28, 2007 at 05:08:38PM -0400, James McOrmond wrote:
>   >    > Does anybody know if there's planned support for this BIOSRAID 
> in an    > upcoming dmraid release?
> 
>   Should be me ;-)
> 
>   Not yet, because I don't have metadata format specs for this.
>   Any pointers to those or an OSS implementation would surely help this.
> 
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