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Date:      Thu, 22 Jul 2004 10:04:20 -0700
From:      "Samuel Clements" <sclements@linkline.com>
To:        "'Guy Dawson'" <guy@crossflight.co.uk>, "'Eric Toll'" <etoll@vipstructures.com>
Cc:        freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org
Subject:   RE: Is it possible to migrate raid 5 array to another controller?
Message-ID:  <20040722170419.06BFA116@smtp2.linkline.com>
In-Reply-To: <40FFECEF.7040008@crossflight.co.uk>

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> I'm agreeing no. There's no standard for how a controller should
> write RAID meta data to the disks in the array. We have moved disks
> from one Compaq RAID controller to a newer model but that's because
> Compaq does, in part, have it's own internal standard for storing
> meta data.


With the only possible exception to this being controllers from
manufacturers that have been purchased from someone else. Eg: from an ICP
Vortex to an Intel, but even then it'd only be specific models.
  -Sam



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