Sean Davis wrote:

>Hi, I've got two SATA drives that are the exact same model and capacity (one
>has newer firmware that causes it to report ata133 capability instead of
>ata100, that's the only difference.) I'm considering turning them into a
>raid 1 set.
>
>What I'm wondering is, has anybody used the VT8237's built in SATA RAID
>support in conjunction with NetBSD, and if so, how'd it perform? Was it
>reliable, that sort of thing?
>  
>
The sata controller will work fine as plain sata controllers, but I 
don't believe the (partial) raid support in the bios is directly 
supported.  You can use raidframe to mirror the disks, or partitions 
thereof.

skd


>I'm open to trying raidframe as well, I just want to evaluate both options
>first so that I can choose the best one.
>
>- Sean
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