[Centos] raid mirroring on existing CentOS 4 installation?

[joey at clean.q7.com (Joe Pruett)]

> Before you buy anything, be aware of the fact that CentOS4 does not have 
> "built-in" support for either 3ware or adaptec SATA RAID cards, In fact, it 
> doesn't support many raid cards, at all.
> 
> Your best best will be the LSI or MegaRaid cards.
> 
> Also, if you read the digest version of this list, since the beginning of the 
> month, there were quite a number of posts regarding Raid and CentOS4, 
> including a few from me.

the 3ware 9xxx cards are directly supported by centos4.  i have a box 
running centos4 with sata drives on the 9500S-4LP with no extra drivers 
required.