On Wed, 21 Jun 2006 at 7:54am, David Thompson wrote > 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. OTOH, if you need good RAID5 performance, use the 9550. 3ware is pretty darn good about providing drivers/install disks in a timely manner, even for OS point releases. > Anyone know if 9550 support will be included in CentOS 4.4? This bug <https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=174639> seems to indicate that it will be. -- Joshua Baker-LePain Department of Biomedical Engineering Duke University