"Bryan J. Smith" thebs413@earthlink.net wrote:
- Software RAID with ATA, SCSI (non-backplane) or JBOD
modes You're on your own here. If there is not a full SCSI-2 driver for your controller, with associated hardware to handle loss or transient, then you're likely going to get a panic. The "new option" in kernel 2.6 is allegedly hotswap, but I have never configured a storage device for
it
-- other than USB, FireWire, CompactFlash, etc...
One final note ...
"libata" is an effort to give a rich set of features to both ATA and SATA. Especially for SATA, where it does have staggered pins and can be considered the "SCA for ATA."
But that means the ATA controller, its driver and the end-device must all support the function in libata to work.