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Subject: Re: Installing 5.4-S on nvidia raid1?
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Christian Brueffer wrote:
 > It doesn't work because the ataraid code in 5.4 doesn't understand 
> the NVIDIA MediaShield metadata format.  It is supported on HEAD
> and the RELENG_6 branch that will result in FreeBSD 6.0-RELEASE.
> 
> Take a look at the ataraid(4) manpage in HEAD and RELENG_6 for more
> information on how software RAID works and which metadata formats
> are supported.

That explains it, thanks.

Any idea if/when the relevant code will be MFCd?