I have used RAIDCore cards (then Broadcom). Purchased from Excellnet. I used 8 port cards, and the beauty is that since they do "software" raid, you can combine up to 4 controllers and created a 32 drives RAID array (>16TB with 500GB SATA disks ). The driver is not open-source, but they provide drivers for the latest disributions, plus a kit that lets you link their driver to unsupported kernels. I don't think you can install debian out of the box ion them. If that's what you want, I suggest you check what drivers Debian pack in, and choose that way - I believe LSI logic would work out of the [debian] box, and probably 3ware as well.
Good luck Dan On 4/16/07, Arieh Skliarouk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hi, Can anyone recommend me Linux friendly hardware RAID card with following features: Available for purchase from Israel company or reseller SATA support for 4 drives or more Open source driver included in latests 2.6 kernel Must support true HW RAID[0,1,5] raid, when BIOS and Linux see only single disk (unlike Promise cards). Consequence of previous two requirements: debian 4.0 can install itself onto the RAID (configured from BIOS), out-of-the-box. hot-swap is not necessary, the system can be powered off for maintenance sometimes.Thank you in advance! -- Arieh
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