* Feizhou feizhou@graffiti.net [2006-06-09 04:44:00]:
Check out areca. The driver is in tree (writen by areca). And it looks like they are actively supporting linux.
They have drivers for RHEL 4 update 3 among many others for their PCIe RAID cards that I looked at.
I've been producing Areca/CentOS driver RPM packages since early 4.0 days:
http://www.bodgit-n-scarper.com/code.html#centos
Might be a little easier to keep updated with yum.
As for booting, provided the kernel driver is in the initrd for the kernel, it will work fine as a boot volume, (the same as all of the other storage controllers). As long as you have the line:
alias scsi_hostadapter arcmsr
in /etc/modprobe.conf, the driver will get included by mkinitrd. My package will check for this on install.
I need to upload the latest versions, but they Work For Me so far.
Matt