ATARAID(4) | Device Drivers Manual | ATARAID(4) |
ataraid
—
pseudo-device ataraid
ld* at ataraid? vendtype ? unit ?
ataraid
driver provides support for BIOS-based
software RAID controllers. These are devices which have some simple support
for several basic RAID levels (often RAID 0 and RAID 1), but which require
software support to actually perform the RAID function. The BIOS support is
largely just to create and recognize the array so that it may be a boot
device.
The driver currently supports RAID formats from:
Status of the logical disk, as well as the disks associated with it, can be viewed through the bioctl(8) utility.
ataraid
driver first appeared in
NetBSD 2.0.
ataraid
driver was originally adapted from
FreeBSD by Jason Thorpe
⟨thorpej@NetBSD.org⟩.
At least part of the reason for this is that the publicly-available information on these formats is quite limited.
September 16, 2008 | NetBSD 9.4 |