[CentOS] PCI-X Sata Raid Controller

[Joshua Baker-LePain]

On Wed, 21 Jun 2006 at 7:54am, David Thompson wrote

> Feizhou wrote:
>> Bryan Shelton wrote:
>>> Does anyone have any suggested PCI-X Sata Raid Controllers which are
>>> natively supported in Centos 4.3, the 2.6 kernel.  I guess either  with
>>> the new megaraid or aacraid drivers?
>>
>> 3ware. THE most reliable. Never saw one fail and there were more than 10
>> boxes using 3ware cards. Watch out for motherboard compatibility if you
>> have one of them Intel E7500 or something chipsets.
>
> If you need native kernel support, use the 9500, not the 9550.  9550 support
> is currently only available with the driver available from 3ware.

OTOH, if you need good RAID5 performance, use the 9550.  3ware is pretty 
darn good about providing drivers/install disks in a timely manner, even 
for OS point releases.

> Anyone know if 9550 support will be included in CentOS 4.4?

This bug <https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=174639> 
seems to indicate that it will be.

-- 
Joshua Baker-LePain
Department of Biomedical Engineering
Duke University