I am planning on buying a new server for my site.
Generally I'm thinking of the following configuration:
Mainboard: Tyan Tiger K8W (S2875) ATX
CPU: 2xAMD Opteron 248/250
HD: 2xWD 250GB SATA RAID Edition
RAM: Corsair 2GB DDR 3200 ECC Registered
After looking up in Tyan's site, and looking in the specs of the MB (URL: http://www.tyan.com/products/html/tigerk8w_spec.html ), I saw that it contains "Silicon Image Sil3114 SATA Raid Accelerator".
I contacted the store I am planning on buying the machine from, and asked them wether it's well supported in Linux. I got a weird answer that "the SATA will work, but you'll have to do the RAID-1 you're planning to do by software..."
I also looked in the Kernel configuration menus, and found out that "Silicon Image" is supported (Device Drivers -> SCSI low-level drivers -> Serial ATA (SATA) support -> Silicon Image SATA support [or CONFIG_SCSI_SATA_SIL]), however no model names are mentioned there.
My question is basically: Did anyone use the above mentioned controller (or even better: same spec) with Linux? I am planning to install Gentoo on the server, so self-compiling stuff is really not a problem :) If you know from experience that it WON'T work, can you suggest on some other configuration?
Thanks!
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