Looking for in-box supported, bootable RAID-5 SATA controller for FC9... any recos?

[Rick Stevens]

Philip A. Prindeville wrote:
> I went out and bought a Promise FastTrak TX4650 believing that it was, 
> indeed, "in-box supported" in FC9.
> 
> It's not.  You have to build the drivers for your kernel, and that's 
> after searching on several blogs for driver updates (the factory drivers 
> are 2.6.23)
> 
> So I'm looking for a PCI (not PCI-X... my motherboard won't physically 
> fit one) or PCI-e 1x or PCI-e 16x card that supports RAID 5, has in 
> kernel drivers in FC9, is SATA, and that I can boot off (well, booting 
> would be nice to have... but not vital).
> 
> Either something that is purely hardware RAID, or has partial hardware 
> acceleration for "md".  (The motherboard, an ASUS M3A78-CM, has a 
> 6-channel SATA controller, but no RAID 5 functionality).
> 
> This is for a build server for our Open Source project.
> 
> Any recommendations?
> 
> Oh, and I have a max budget of about $300 USD.  Yes, I'm a cheap bastard.

HighPoint Technologies RocketRAID 2300?  PCI-e (x1-, x4-, x8- and
x16-compatible), 4 channels, RAID 0, 1, 5, 10 and JBOD.  Uses the
sata_mv driver and is bootable.  Works for me.
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