Oh... right.. I think we did have to add the drivers seperately for the 9650. 95xx should be "out of the box". Andrew > -----Original Message----- > From: centos-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:centos-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx]On > Behalf Of Joshua Baker-LePain > Sent: Tuesday, March 20, 2007 1:57 PM > To: CentOS mailing list > Subject: Re: SATA RAID card recommendation? > > > On Tue, 20 Mar 2007 at 10:52am, Florin Andrei wrote > > > I need a SATA RAID PCI card that works well with CentOS and is fully > > supported. Mandatory features: > > - works with the drivers already in the kernel, no additional drivers > > - can do RAID 0, 1 and 5 > > - hotswap > > - allows to monitor the status of the array and of each > individual drive via > > a script (ideally run from cron) > > - works with very large SATA drives > > > > Nice to have features but not mandatory: > > - small battery to keep the array alive until the write buffers > are flushed > > after a power loss > > > > Anyone having positive experience with SATA RAID, please comment. > > 3ware. Period. 9550/9590 will do everything you want. 9650 gets you > RAID6, but I'm not sure the distro provided drivers have caught up yet. > > -- > Joshua Baker-LePain > Department of Biomedical Engineering > Duke University > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS@xxxxxxxxxx > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@xxxxxxxxxx http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos