Am 10.09.2008 um 19:17 schrieb Tim Nelson: > Hello fellow listers... > > I'd like to get some recommendations on a good SATA controller for > use with CentOS 5.x. It should be PCI, bootable, have 4 SATA ports, > have native support (no crap proprietary or manually compiled > drivers), and possibly hot swap support. Any ideas? > > There are plenty of PCI-X and PCIe controllers that I think would > work but the use for this card is in a smaller 1U server that is > quite cramped, hence the query for a standard PCI card. Use the onBoard SATA-ports and do a software RAID1. If you can use PCIe, get an Areca card (they also do PCI-X). Otherwhise, I wouldn't bother, except for maybe 3Ware cards - but if you think about a card already, Areca should be better. Rainer