Roy Wright wrote:
> Albert Hopkins wrote:
>> I think as long as you stay away from RAID, in particular "fake" HW
>> RAID, then it would be difficult to find a SATA controller that wasn't
>> supported by the kernel.
>
> Thank you. The hardware search is being a little more difficult than I
> had hoped. I'm finding:
>
> * Internal SATA 1 (PCI)
> * Internal SATA 2 (PCI-X)
> * eSATA (PCI, PCIe)
> * hardware RAID (PCI, PCIe, PCI-X) using proprietary binary drivers
>
> Looks like I need to rethink my storage upgrade.
>
> Thank you,
> Roy
>

http://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductReview.aspx?Item=N82E16816103058

The Adaptec card looks reasonable though one of the comments indicates
that someone had issues doing RAID5 via Linux with it which seems
strange. You can always test and return if it doesn't work out.

kashani
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