Hi Tim, On Thu, 13 Sep 2007, Tim Verhoeven wrote: > On 9/13/07, Tom Diehl <tdiehl at rogueind.com> 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. > > Tom, > > The ServeRAID 8k s a real hardware raid controller, is has 256 MB of > cache I think and a battery backup. So in this case there is no need > for a 3ware controller. On the IBM website you can also find a > commandline tool (called arcconf) that allows you monitor and > configure the controller inside Linux. Is there a place where this kind of thing is documented? I looked through Google for about 3 hrs yesterday and I could not find anything definitive. Thank You, for the info. Regards, -- Tom Diehl tdiehl at rogueind.com Spamtrap address mtd123 at rogueind.com