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Subject: Re: FreeBSD 5.4: Is it generally unstable?
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On Wed, Jun 08, 2005 at 03:04:20PM -0400, Charles Swiger wrote:
>
> However, it's common to find half-decent hardware RAID functionality  
> on many x86 and AMD64 motherboards, and PCI-based RAID cards are not  
> very expensive.
>
	Of course, asr() isn't 64 bit safe, so that can throw a 
   wrinkle into the AMD64 story... :-/

	And, yeah, I have considered volunteering for this. 

							Bruce
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