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Re: Direct access to drives behind bio(4) supported hardware RAID controllers

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Old 03-28-2008, 04:37 AM
David Gwynne
 
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Default Re: Direct access to drives behind bio(4) supported hardware RAID controllers

I'm not sure why you would want to do this.

dlg

On 27/03/2008, at 6:05 AM, Boris Shteinbock wrote:
> Hi. Sorry if the question is dumb.
>
> I am looking for information on how to directly access drives
> that sit behind hardware RAID controllers supported by bio(4). For
> example,
> if I want to issue SCSI/ATA command directly for the physical
> drive, what is my course of action ?
>
> I couldn't find this information in bio(4) interface documentation.
> It seems
> that this
> mechanism is used to do RAID management subsystem in the controller,
> but not
> to
> actually pass the commands to to the drives
>
> Any information on this issue, would be greatly appreciated.
>
>
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