On Wed, Aug 26, 2009, nate wrote: >Kurt Newman wrote: >> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- >> Hash: SHA1 >> >> 1) Has anyone been able to get their AIC-9410 controller recognized in >> CentOS 5.3? >> [..] >> Any ideas on where to go from here? I'd really like to avoid software raid. > >Get a better RAID controller, from the looks of things that looks to >be one of those cheap shit software RAID controllers that depend on >the drivers to do most of the work. Supermicro last I checked at >least didn't have any boards that had good RAID controllers on >them, even their zero channel controllers while I'm sure are probably >higher grade then the on board controller still look poor by comparison. I'll second that. I have a 2U Supermicro box with a X5DPL-TGM main board and Adaptec AIC-8120 on-board controller. CentOS 5.x works fine with the individual drives BIOS configured as JBOD devices, leaving any RAID to Linux software. We have another 1U Supermicro box with a H8DAR-T main board. This has an Adaptec AIC-8130, but that's disabled in favor of a 3ware controller which does Real Raid(tm). Bill -- INTERNET: bill at celestial.com Bill Campbell; Celestial Software LLC URL: http://www.celestial.com/ PO Box 820; 6641 E. Mercer Way Voice: (206) 236-1676 Mercer Island, WA 98040-0820 Fax: (206) 232-9186 Skype: jwccsllc (206) 855-5792 If there's anything a public servant hates to do it's something for the public. -- K. Hubbard