Hi Tom,
Tom Diehl wrote:
Does anyone know how I can find out if an ibm serveraid 8k sas storage controller (zero channel RAID) is a real hardware RAID controller and supported in the standard CentOs kernel or is it a fake raid controller. I am trying to decide if I should get the serveraid controller or go get a 3ware controller.
although not the freshest, this site always turned out to be helpful getting infos for SATA "raid" cards (the "fake check"):
http://linuxmafia.com/faq/Hardware/sata.html
In the according document,
http://linuxmafia.com/faq/Hardware/sas.html
nothing is stated about a fake SAS card (but indeed about linux compatibility). Maybe in this league, cheating customers is not so common. Does anybody know a SAS/SCSI raid card which does hidden software raid instead of hardware?
Regards, Sebastian