[CentOS] PCI-X Sata Raid Controller

Wed Jun 21 12:54:01 UTC 2006
David Thompson <thomas at cs.wisc.edu>

Feizhou wrote:
>Bryan Shelton wrote:
>> Does anyone have any suggested PCI-X Sata Raid Controllers which are  
>> natively supported in Centos 4.3, the 2.6 kernel.  I guess either  with 
>> the new megaraid or aacraid drivers?
>
>3ware. THE most reliable. Never saw one fail and there were more than 10 
>boxes using 3ware cards. Watch out for motherboard compatibility if you 
>have one of them Intel E7500 or something chipsets.

If you need native kernel support, use the 9500, not the 9550.  9550 support 
is currently only available with the driver available from 3ware.

Anyone know if 9550 support will be included in CentOS 4.4?

Dave Thompson
UW-Madison