I'm using a LSI MEGARAID 150-4 controller with four SATA disk drives in a CVS 
server . dmesg shows:


ami0 at pci2 dev 3 function 0 "Symbios Logic MegaRAID" rev 0x01: irq 9 LSI 
523/64b/lhc
ami0: FW 713N, BIOS vG119, 64MB RAM
ami0: 1 channels, 0 FC loops, 1 logical drives
scsibus0 at ami0: 40 targets
sd0 at scsibus0 targ 0 lun 0: <AMI, Host drive #00, > SCSI2 0/direct fixed
sd0: 228938MB, 29185 cyl, 255 head, 63 sec, 512 bytes/sec, 468865024 sec total

On Tuesday 03 May 2005 08:16 pm, you wrote:
> Hello Everyone,
> No, this is not a "why isn't my SATA RAID supported."  I wanted to find
> out some more information on this subject though.  From what I
> understand most of the SATA raid setups use a bios or software raid
> configuration.  Does this mean that the OS still has to pass native ATA
> or SCSI commands to the disk to get them to perform their tasks?  This
> would seem like a complete WASTE of time and energy to manufacture.
> What are some real hardware cards that support SATA raid aside from
> adaptec?  Thanks guys, just trying to learn.
> Brandon

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