On 11/25/05, J.C. Roberts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > You are partially correct about the "MegaRAID ATA 133-2" HBA; the > "MegaRAID ATA 133-2" is _partially_ supported in OpenBSD mainly because > it is only _partially_ a RAID device. The low-end ATA-133-2 card is > actually a "fake-RAID" device that requires specialized drivers to > enable the RAID functionality. Though the "ATA 133-2" card can not do > it's usual "fake-RAID" on OpenBSD due to the lack of "fake-RAID" > drivers, the card still works perfectly as standard ATA-133 controller. > -Saying it is "*not*" supported is somewhat unfair, since it actually is > supported as well as it can be without adding a closed source binary > driver to your system. If you really needed "RAID" functionality and it > was the only card you had, you could easily use it as a normal > controller then do SoftRAID on top of it.
I disagree with you. If the RAID functionality is not supported, then it is not a supported RAID card. You can say it is a supported IDE card, and that is perfectly fine, but please do not mention it anywhere near any RAID functionality. Fake-Raid is fake, and saying that softraid on a fake raid card is misleading, because you can do softraid on any IDE device, it does not have to be a fake raid crap. -Tai
