On Mon, 2009-11-16 at 21:49 +0000, James Bensley wrote: > Ok, > I'm back again... > > > Thanks again to all for more replies and info, all the info of the > list members is really appreciated. > > > So I have found this card and wondered if anyone has a second opinion > on it > (http://www.supermicro.com/products/accessories/addon/AOC-SAT2-MV8.cfm). Seeing as it states on the website that the CD that comes with the card has RedHat drivers on it, and I will be using CentOS 5.4 i386 on my little home server everything should work just dandy shouldn't it? I am trying find some examples online of people using this card with CentOS in a software RAID but nothing yet so wondered if anyone here has any input here? > > > -- > Regards, > James ;) > If I am not mistaken that card uses the Marvell MV88SX5081 chipset and uses the sata_mv module (after a little googling). I have been reading around google and found that support for this was added in CentOS 4 (sata_mv). I also saw some posts regarding instability with this driver... sort of a use at own risk scenario. Some were saying disabling hw RAID helped, but I haven't used that card so I couldn't tell you. Maybe someone else on the list has used a card with the MV88SX5081 chipset? I have only played with the AOC-USAS-L8i card and that wasn't in Linux (it was for an Opensolaris build), we just needed to buy SFF-8087 to 4 x SATA cables to make it work. If you want to use SW raid, I might suggest going for a card that is just adds SATA ports and has no onboard RAID, but it is up to you. Tait -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 197 bytes Desc: This is a digitally signed message part URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20091116/4881159a/attachment-0003.sig>