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From: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
Subject: Re: Linux version 2.6.6 // libata 1.02 // sata_promise version 0.92
 // problem with Promise FastTrack S150 SX4
Date: Wed, 19 May 2004 18:32:58 -0400
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Kurt Garloff wrote:
> On Mon, May 17, 2004 at 02:06:33PM -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote:
> 
>>This is normal.
>>
>>Promise proprietary RAID is not supported under Linux, by the kernel 
>>drivers.
> 
> 
> They should publish the metadata format of their fakeRAID stuff.
> Somebody could parse this and setup linux SW raid accordingly
> from userspace.


Promise did, and somebody did.  :)  But not in the kernel.

See Carl-Denial Hailfinger's "raiddetect" work...

	Jeff