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Greetings folks,

I'm currently redoing my home server as one of the hard drives in my RAID-1 array went down and I'm going to replace the lot of it with a 3Ware Escalade 9500S RAID capable card and four Seagate 200GB SATA drives. These drives are supposedly the coolest and quietest SATA drives available (better than the Maxtors I had anyway) and the capacity upgrade on the server is worth the $$$ at this point. I'm planning on running them in RAID-5 for maximum disk space and performance.

Are there any 3Ware Escalade/SATA issues I should be aware of when building this new server utilizing CentOS-3? The card was supposedly supported under RH9, so I figured RHEL3 (or clones) would be fine.

Thanks in advance for the feedback,

- --Shawn

- -- - -- Shawn M. Jones smj@littleprojects.org http://www.littleprojects.org