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Date: Wed, 06 Nov 2002 13:58:50 -0800
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Alan Cox wrote:
> On Wed, 2002-11-06 at 20:46, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> 
>>I presume that means device mapper is capable of using checksum
>>offloading and controller-based block duplication?  If so, that's
>>pretty damned nice.  Good work :)
> 
> ataraid is just driving dumb ide controllers in the way bios raid does
 >

I guess I meant it as a more general question than those specific devices.

	-hpa