On Mon, 22 Dec 2008 11:15:42 -0800 "Philip A. Prindeville" <philipp_subx@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I went out and bought a Promise FastTrak TX4650 believing that it > was, indeed, "in-box supported" in FC9. > > It's not. You have to build the drivers for your kernel, and that's > after searching on several blogs for driver updates (the factory > drivers are 2.6.23) > > So I'm looking for a PCI (not PCI-X... my motherboard won't > physically fit one) or PCI-e 1x or PCI-e 16x card that supports RAID > 5, has in kernel drivers in FC9, is SATA, and that I can boot off > (well, booting would be nice to have... but not vital). > > Either something that is purely hardware RAID, or has partial > hardware acceleration for "md". (The motherboard, an ASUS M3A78-CM, > has a 6-channel SATA controller, but no RAID 5 functionality). > > This is for a build server for our Open Source project. > > Any recommendations? Any particular reason for hardware raid? Why not use the already included and well supported Linux software raid? > Oh, and I have a max budget of about $300 USD. Yes, I'm a cheap > bastard. This to my mind points even more to software raid. ;) You aren't going to find a good hardware raid card in that range I don't think. > Thanks, > > -Philip kevin
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