On 27/04/2010, at 5:18 AM, Lev Serebryakov wrote: > Hello, Pawel. > You wrote 26 апреля 2010 г., 23:10:12: > >> You most likely got it right, I'm just saying creating separate GEOM >> class for each metadata format is wrong direction. :) > Does ataraid translations and checksuming (in case of RAID5) now or > it configures chipsets only? > > All these ``raids'' are known as ``soft raids'' or ``fake raids'', > but what does do real work -- BIOS or driver (Ataraid in case of > FreeBSD)?
Both.. ataraid does it when FreeBSD is running but the BIOS does it before then so boot0, the loader, et al can read the disk without having an underlying driver. -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C _______________________________________________ freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-current-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
