I'll not pay 60USD for a fake-raid BIOS. Here, a Silicon Image 3124 (PCI not PCIe, but I believe PCIe version is also available) 4-port SATA card worths 30USD or below. The fake-raid BIOS comes with the card, I can't remove it, but I pay nothing for it. Someone mentioned that Silicon Image 3124 is not server grade. I agree. But compare with those LSI / Adaptec / 3ware server grade cards, can you pay 30USD to get one? And, then, do you consider Promise / Hi-Point server grade? Those 4 Silicon Image 3124 I had in various installations are working fine 7x24x365 for a few years, but of course, your mileage might be different. Regards, Stephen WONG On Thu, Feb 25, 2010 at 9:58 AM, Christopher Chan <christopher.chan at bradbury.edu.hk> wrote: > On Thursday, February 25, 2010 09:47 AM, Stephen Wong wrote: >> Any Silicon Image card will do, don't worry about the fake-raid bios, >> don't define anything under the fake-raid bios, and the kernel will >> see the Silicon Image chip and connected disks readily. The kernel >> module for Silicon Image 3124 was there for long time. I have >> installations which use such SATA chips running for a few years. >> > > But why pay an extra 60USD or so for a dumb fake-raid bios? > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos >