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From: erik quanstrom <quanstro@quanstro.net>
Date: Sat, 31 Dec 2011 14:32:05 -0500
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> > (see wiki's raid article.)
>
> Plan 9 wiki? It mentions SiL 3112 SATA, 3114 SATA/RAID and VIA 82C686,
> VT8237 SATA/RAID, strangely, under IDE section.
>
> I haven't found yet relevant information about the SiL stuff, but the
> VIA stuff is what Adaptec calls HostRAID and Linux fakeRAID.

wikipedia.

there's nothing strange about a sata device or even a raid of
various devices of any type being presented with an ide programming
interface.  one could just as easily slap an ahci programming interface
on, but either requires translation software/hardware.

for me, the most important questions are
- how do i set up a raid/hot spares, and
- can i do this without rebooting.

- erik