Switchover to CAM ATA?

[Alexander Motin]

Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote:
> Maxim Sobolev <sobomax at FreeBSD.org> writes:
>> Richard Tector <richardtector at thekeelecentre.com> writes:
>>> Could I also add that the removal of ataraid would affect those
>>> users who dual-boot with Windows and rely on the psuedo-raid
>>> provided by most Intel chipsets to be able to share the same pair of
>>> disks.
>> Well, this won't be a problem if we have GEOM classes that can
>> understand metadata created by the ATA RAID BIOS(es).
> 
> Most pseudo-raid kit has nifty features like checksum offloading,
> composite writes etc. which can improve performance considerably.  You
> can't access those from GEOM.

Have you ever seen them documented? Does the need to specifically handle
dozens of incompatible implementations with limited resources worth
those (probably not major) benefits?

-- 
Alexander Motin