On Thu, Jun 08, 2006 at 08:08:57PM +0200, Lazy wrote: > 2006/6/6, Feizhou <feizhou at graffiti.net>: > > >Forget this proprietary software raid drivers. Just use the kernel > >software raid capabilities. There has yet to appear a company that > >manufactures bios on a chip raid cards that provide adequate or even > >minimal linux driver support. > >> (please don't tell me that 3ware is the only make to use, tw_cli is not > >> exactly user friendly). > >If you don't like hardware raid then there is nothing else for you. > > Check out areca. The driver is in tree (writen by areca). And it looks > like they are actively supporting linux. > > There was some nice performance comparison betwean linux compatible > sata raid cards and areca performed really well. If my memory serves > me well it was significantly faster then 3ware. > Can't find the url now :(. So i have no arguments to support it now. > But certainly areca it's worth a try. I don't think the areca drivers are in the kernel tree yet - I believe they're slated for inclusion in possibly 2.6.18. Certainly the CentOS4 kernels don't include areca support. They are pretty decent cards, but I wouldn't use them for boot disks until they actually are in the stock kernel. For RHEL5/CentOS5 they might be good. Cheers, Gavin