Re: marvell sata status?

[Mark Lord <liml@rtr.ca>]

Jody Belka wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 01, 2009 at 02:11:37PM -0500, Justin Piszcz wrote:
>> On Thu, 1 Jan 2009, Jody Belka wrote:
>>> Cool, I think I'll go for that card then (Adaptec 1430SA). They're
>>> x4, so good bandwidth, and i'll use the x16 slots on my board for
>>> them. Only need one for now, but two eventually. And they're a good
>>> price, at only £77 each.
>> Does the card 'recognize' disks as SATA or do you have to export them as 
>> JBOD? The star tech card allows you to see the sata drives directly.
> 
> Well, it's just fake-raid, so surely you can always see the individual drives?
> Are there actually cards out there that don't? *boggle*
> 
> Hmm.... ok, checking the Adaptec knowledgebase:
> 
> Q: Can drives be used on an Adaptec RAID controller but not be used as
>    part of a RAID array?
> 
> A: Hard drives attached to an Adaptec RAID controller do not have to be
>    configured as an array member to work properly. The RAID controller
>    will recognize and access single disks. Please refer to your controller
>    documentation for instructions on accessing drives that are not a member
>    of any RAID array. 
..

I suppose, of all of the vendors, Adaptec probably has the best chance
of getting that part right, and probably without randomly writing metadata
somewhere on the drive simply for JBOD.

Anyone know for sure ?

Cheers