I had bought one of these to use with my Intel D955XBK board and ended up returning it. I could not get the Adaptec controller BIOS screen to come up. It kept saying something about not having enough memory. Not sure why it wasn't compatible as Adpatec adapters are normally good. I ended up returning and it purchasing a Supermicro AOC-USAS-L8i adapter which uses the LSI SAS 1068E chip. You can get these cheap off eBay. The only downside is theses are made for the PCI Express UIO slot on the Supermicro boards. I didn't realize it at the time, but the UIO boards have the components mounted on the opposite side. I had to swap out the PCI bracket so I could secure it in the case and it takes up the space of two slots. If this isn't a big deal to you then the card works great. There are three different firmware modes available from Supermicro for that card. I have the IT mode firmware which disables the RAID support of the card. The drives are passed straight through to the OS without having to configure anything in the card's BIOS. I can even use the smartmontools to monitor the drives health. Ryan On Tue, Sep 8, 2009 at 9:56 AM, Jon Hardcastle<jd_hardcastle@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Does anyone have any experience with Adaptec controllers? Namely > > http://www.adaptec.com/en-US/support/sata/sataii/AAR-1430SA/ > > I want to increase my machines drive capacity and reply the existing 2 port pci-e with this bad boy. > > Also; any ideas of a good price? Have seen for ~£70 + p&p > > ----------------------- > N: Jon Hardcastle > E: Jon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > 'Do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will bring worries of its own.' > ----------------------- > > > > -- > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in > the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
