[CentOS] RAIDs and JBOD?

[Arturas Skauronas]

On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 12:53 AM, James Bensley <jwbensley at gmail.com> wrote:
> Thanks for the speedy replies guys,
>
> I had an itch, so I itched it; In the back of my head I couldn't help
> but think I had miss-read the details about my mobo and that it was
> PCI-E not PCI-X and I was right, so the previous card is no longer an
> option although I am not liking the look of it thanks to the list
> members finding various problems for me (thanks guys, saved me some
> time and hassle there!) so instead I am looking at one of these
> (http://www.adaptec.com/en-US/support/sata/sataii/AAR-1430SA/). Its
> based on the Marvell 88SX7042 chipset which seems to work under CentOS
> 5, Hurray!

I have card MV88SX6081 and can confirm that it works...
but not with in stock kernel, you have to build module on your own. so
if you are planning to have system in hard drives which are conected
to motherboard it can be just fine.