On Thu, Jan 22, 2004 at 04:57:57PM +0200, Sagi Bashari wrote:

> 1. Can anyone recommend a good controller that does hardware raid (not 
> in driver/kernel level) and is fully supported under linux?

There was a recent discussion on linux-kernel on why software raid is
better for you. To sum up: you aren't locked into a single vendor's
metadata format, and most hardware raids just end up doing software
raids anyway. See the archives or kernel traffic for the details. 

> From what I understand the current debian installer does not support 
> SATA, let alone RAID. Does this mean that I will have to install the 
> system on normal IDE hdd and then move it to SATA disks manually, after 
> installing a new kernel?

That's one way of doing it. Another, albeit twisted way, is to install
another system e.g. RedHat, on a small partition, and then convert the
system to debian on the fly. Other suggestions?

Cheers, 
Muli 
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Muli Ben-Yehuda
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