Hi Tom, Tom Diehl wrote: > Does anyone know how I can find out if an ibm serveraid 8k sas storage > controller (zero channel RAID) is a real hardware RAID controller and > supported in the standard CentOs kernel or is it a fake raid controller. > I am trying to decide if I should get the serveraid controller or go get > a 3ware controller. although not the freshest, this site always turned out to be helpful getting infos for SATA "raid" cards (the "fake check"): http://linuxmafia.com/faq/Hardware/sata.html In the according document, http://linuxmafia.com/faq/Hardware/sas.html nothing is stated about a fake SAS card (but indeed about linux compatibility). Maybe in this league, cheating customers is not so common. Does anybody know a SAS/SCSI raid card which does hidden software raid instead of hardware? Regards, Sebastian