James Bensley wrote:
Ok, I'm back again...
Thanks again to all for more replies and info, all the info of the list members is really appreciated.
So I have found this card and wondered if anyone has a second opinion on it (http://www.supermicro.com/products/accessories/addon/AOC-SAT2-MV8.cfm). Seeing as it states on the website that the CD that comes with the card has RedHat drivers on it, and I will be using CentOS 5.4 i386 on my little home server everything should work just dandy shouldn't it? I am trying find some examples online of people using this card with CentOS in a software RAID but nothing yet so wondered if anyone here has any input here?
Yes, I have one and it works fine with the stock drivers in Centos. Most of the drives are in hot-swap trays and I don't have any trouble swapping them in and out of software raid1 sets. As long as you have a PCI-X slot it should work for you.