Subject: Re: SATA on VIA VT8237
To: Patrick Welche <prlw1@newn.cam.ac.uk>
From: Jaromir Dolecek <jdolecek@NetBSD.org>
List: port-i386
Date: 08/25/2005 21:45:40
On Thu, Aug 25, 2005 at 08:41:03PM +0100, Patrick Welche wrote:
> but they seem to be content free.. (What exactly is V-Raid?) The
> paradox is if the raid is really software raid embedded in the
> windows driver, why have the bios to set up the raid sets? If it
> really is hardware raid, why does NetBSD see the disks individually?

In order for the BIOS to boot off the "raid0" set - that's the
only reason.

Jaromir
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