On Sat, Apr 02, 2005 at 04:04:48PM +0100, Gordon Henderson wrote:
> The cheaper cards that I've used seem to have mostly the SII chipset - and
> that appears to be well supported by Linux. The 3112 is a dual-port card,
> the 3114, quad. There are RAID and non-RAID variants, and all the ones
> I've used seem to have a JBOD mode anyway (so you use s/w RAID rather than
> their supplied h/w RAID) (The exception would seem to be the Dell/Adaptec
> 6-port SATA card I had recently - it has 3 x SII 3112 chips on it, and a
> big Adaptec/Dell chip which hides them from bus )-:

The Dell CERC SATA 1.5/6ch cards use the standard aacraid driver, so
no worries about unavailable/closed-source drivers there.

Thanks,
Matt

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