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Date:      Tue, 10 Jun 2008 17:14:55 +0200 (CEST)
From:      Wojciech Puchar <wojtek@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl>
To:        Manolis Kiagias <sonicy@otenet.gr>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, DA Forsyth <iwrtech@iwr.ru.ac.za>
Subject:   Re: xRAID disks....
Message-ID:  <20080610171352.T75322@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl>
In-Reply-To: <484E9925.2050507@otenet.gr>
References:  <484EACEB.7169.43FE1258@iwrtech.iwr.ru.ac.za> <20080610145926.GA66984@owl.midgard.homeip.net> <484E9925.2050507@otenet.gr>

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> I recently removed one pair of disks from a windows "hardware :)" RAID 
> controller, and upon inserting it into a newly built FreeBSD system, it was 
> immediately detected by the ar driver, and messages started coming in, like

is there actually any difference in ar and gmirror/gstripe except that ar 
is simpler, takes only whole drives and use "hardware RAID ;)" compatible 
headers ?

> make the disks forget about their previous RAID-life:
>
> atacontrol delete ar0
>
> Have a look at man atacontrol. I have not tried it, but it is probably worth 
> a try.



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