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? Yes, I have one and it works fine with the stock drivers in Centos. Most of the drives are in hot-swap trays and I don't have any trouble swapping them in and out of software raid1 sets. As long as you have a PCI-X slot it should work for you. -- Les Mikesell lesmikesell at gmail.com