You should probably take a look at: http://ata.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Hardware,_driver_status
...if you haven't already. If you have an existing IDE driver then you should be able to use SATA hardware on the Intel ICH controllers in the PE 2900 with little or no modification by using the IDE emulation mode. In this mode you don't have access to some features such as NCQ, power management, and hot-plug, but I don't know if this is an issue for you or not. As a completely different approach, you could always just target the "virtio" virtual device hardware supported by http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kernel-based_Virtual_Machine http://www.linux-kvm.org/page/Virtio ... and let Linux act as a driver layer for you - performance using the virtio driver APIs should be near-native - and you could say goodbye to constant hardware support hassles - supporting a wide range of NICs must be a total pain. Cheers, Tim. -- South East Open Source Solutions Limited Registered in England and Wales with company number 06134732. Registered Office: 2 Powell Gardens, Redhill, Surrey, RH1 1TQ VAT number: 900 6633 53 http://seoss.co.uk/ +44-(0)1273-808309 _______________________________________________ Linux-PowerEdge mailing list [email protected] https://lists.us.dell.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-poweredge Please read the FAQ at http://lists.us.dell.com/faq
