[CentOS] SATA RAID Cards

[Michael Best]

Troy Engel wrote:
> WipeOut wrote:
>>
>> 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