Re: SATA controllers and kernel port assignment in Linux

Whoever <nobody@xxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
Is there an easy, safe way to migrate from the old raidtools style RAID to
the new auto-detect mdadm type arrays?

I don't remember what we did, but we created a RAID 1 with raidtools2,
and later just managed it with mdadm, no reformatting required. AFAIK
there is an older RAID format, but my impression from reading the
documentation was that that format could also be managed by mdadm.

- anton
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