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From: "Miquel van Smoorenburg" <miquels@cistron.nl>
Subject: Re: Promise SATA driver
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In article <403B8028.1060700@pobox.com>,
Jeff Garzik  <jgarzik@pobox.com> wrote:
>Andrew Walrond wrote:
>> I take it the software raid thing wasn't part of the gpl'ed driver, and isn't 
>> something that is likely to happen?
>
>
>In 2.4, RAID0 and RAID1 are supported via the pdcraid driver.

I looked at those drivers, but they don't support error recovery
in RAID1 mode of any kind. It's just "read from one drive,
write to both" but if one disk goes south you're SOL.

Just FYI ;)

Mike.