Strange ATARAID format?

Martin Sandaas martin.sandaas at gmail.com
Tue Jan 6 05:34:55 UTC 2009


Wicked!

Thanks for all your advice!

Cheers!
Martin

On Mon, Jan 5, 2009 at 10:55 PM, Phillip Susi <psusi at cfl.rr.com> 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.
>
>
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