Re: Linux SATA RAID FAQ

[Christoph Hellwig]

On Mon, Aug 16, 2004 at 03:06:41PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> hch questioned why we need the driver at all: just put the card in JBOD
> mode and use s/w raid drivers.  But the thing does have an on-board CPU and
> the idea is that by offloading to that, the data transits the bus just a
> single time.  The developers are off doing some comparative benchmarking at
> present.

Alan's driver can use the chip in raid mode.

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