nate wrote:
James Bensley wrote:
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?
Do you feel lucky?
To me seeing something that specifically calls out a version of a product tells me often times there is a binary driver behind it, so compatibility with CentOS 5.x is not a sure thing.
I poked around quite a bit online but could not find any indication of this card/chipset's level of support in linux. Saw a few people asking about support but no replies to any of them.
Myself I would skip this card and go for something that you can find that indicates it specifically supports Red Hat 5.x. Unless you can find something/someone that can tell you that this card has support for CentOS/RHEL 5.x.
I use PCI-X 3Ware 8006-2 raid controllers in two of my own personal systems, they work pretty well. More recently I got an ATTO SAS HBA for a system for a tape drive, they have lots of SAS and SATA HBAs, and lots of linux support but I don't see anything that is PCI-X.
I was having regular filesystem problems with an adaptec and promise card installed in the same box and they all went away when I swapped them out for the 8-port marvel card above - which I got because it was recommended for Solaris and I might eventually switch (especially if Nexenta releases a version that includes zfs de-dup soon).