&nbsp;&nbsp; No need. There's only one good vendor for SATA RAID: AMCC (formerly<br>
<div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">3Ware). All their cards work under RH/FC/CentOS.<br></blockquote></div><br>
II'm running two Dell boxes (PowerEdge SC1425), both with SATA disks
and software RAID.&nbsp; These boxes use the Intel SATA
controller.&nbsp; No problems to date - both perform well under load.<br>
<br>
JH<br>