Michael Watters wrote: > John R Pierce wrote: >> Michael Watters wrote: >>> Wow, that's stupid. I guess we'll be switching to Adaptec cards... >> >> I'd go LSI Logic before I'd let anything Adaptec near my systems > LSI Logic cards are really buggy in Linux, we've had nothing but > problems with them. > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > The trouble with adaptec RAID cards is that they just don't work.... and adaptec are less than useless at providing drivers or support... I have a six port adaptec SATA RAID card which I got with an HP server, in the end I ditched it and went software RAID because the Adaptec card drivers just didn't work.... Additionally, CIFS is not a disk filing system, (as I believe has been said already) so I am not sure what 3WARE are getting at here, See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_file_systems Following th CIFS link takes you straight to SMB as you might expect..... P.