Re: [CentOS] SATA RAID Cards

Troy Engel wrote:

WipeOut wrote:

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Which SATA RAID cards work natively on Centos 4.x??

I have heard that the only one supported is the 3ware cards but not sure if that requires a driver to be added or if it just works out the box.. Also would like to know of alternatives..

I am running a 3ware 9500S-12 card in our backup-to-disk server, and while it does work out of the box with CentOS4 the driver complains of strange errors. I have chosen to use the official downloaded driver package from the 3ware website; the resulting .ko is much larger in size, so I assume there's a lot more goodies in there. (mini HowTo below)

This is generally because it contains the newer firmware embedded in the module.

-Mike