SATA RAID controller recommendations

[Chris]

Thank you for this recommendation - however, it would be nice to hear from 
someone actually using RH (Fedora Core 1 and above, to be more exact, or 
RHEL 3 - we can't use RH9 and below anymore).  From what I've heard over the 
years, Promise controllers are ALWAYS mentioned as "the worst" controllers 
as far as RH support, lack of drivers, poor performance, etc.  I don't have 
any first hand experience with them so I'm just going by the online forums, 
various reviews and lists like this one.  I've used 3Ware Escalade cards and 
they are great.  I'm a little afraid of Adaptec lately, since it seems they 
do not support anything newer than RH 7.3 and are stuck on old driver 
releases.  But if anyone out there has Adaptec SATA RAID 0/1 controller and 
it works out of the box on RH FC1 and 2, and RHEL 3, I'd love to hear from 
you.

Thanks,

Chris



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "comcast" <collindavis at comcast.net>
Sent: Sunday, November 07, 2004 2:50 PM
Subject: Re: SATA RAID controller recommendations


>
> Chris,
>
> I would highly recommend the Promise FastTrak S150 SX4 - while I've never
> used it with RH/Fedora (I've only briefly used those distros at all), I 
> have
> that card along with two of the 36.7GB Raptors, and it works top notch in
> both SuSE with the Promise provided driver, and with Gentoo.  There is a 
> RH
> 9.0 driver available from Promise for the card, so I can only assume it 
> will
> work as well as the SuSE driver.  It can be had for under $200 also, which
> is nice for all of the features it offers.
>
> Hope my recommendation helps.
>
> Collin
> ----- Original Message -----
>> > Looking for recommendations for a decent hardware SATA RAID 0/1
>> > controller, that is well supported by Red Hat Linux - specifically
> Fedora
>> > Core 1 and up. Ideally out of the box (stock Fedora CDs), or with a
> driver
>> > disk from the manufacturer - without having to manually compile 
>> > drivers,
>> > etc.