Re: Recommendations for supported 4-port SATA PCI card ?

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> > I have 4x500GB Maxtor SATA drives and I want to attach
> > these to a 4-port SATA PCI card and RAID5 them using "md"
> >
> > Could anybody recommend a card that will have out of
> > box support on a Fedora system ?

which FC release?  I believe FC4 would have decent support for 
promise tx4's (there are at least two - the most recent might
not work OOB).  sil 3114's ought to work as well.

> 3ware.  Period.  If you're going to use md, get the 8506-4 series rather 
> than either of the 9xxx series cards.

before the 9550, I never found attractive in price/performance: 
expensive as hell and a lot slower than MD.  but the 9550 is really
quite impressive...

regards, mark hahn

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