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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: Marco Schindler <marco.schindler@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Intel SASMF8I
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On Sat, Mar 20, 2010 at 12:04:16AM +0100, Marco Schindler wrote:
> SASMF8I doesn't seem to have any jumpers for "regular" mode and I don't  
> want to use the sw raid of the chip. As far as I remember megasr didn't  
> let me access drives directly. Is there no option then, except patching  
> locally?

I think we should add it in that case.  There's no reason to cripple
Linux on hardware just because the bios pretends it has some useless
fake raid capabilities.