Re: Status of Adaptec Hostraid support.

[Xose Vazquez Perez <xose wanadoo es>]

Alan Cox wrote:

>>>I've got 3ware bits - which work nicely, and aacraid - which works pretty
>>>well although it doesnt like some of the RH kernels. You can pick up
>>>decent aacraid cards (quad channel perc2/qc aka "Obsidian") on ebay.
          ^^^^^^^

IMO aacraid driver is *far* from be stable, and it's *very bad* maintained in
the standard kernel. megaraid is _safer and faster_ option.

> 3ware is just SATA (that was the "niche" comment)

3ware boards are *not* native SATA. They are _bridges_ based.

3ware support SATA with the help of Serial ATA bridges
(chips that convert from Parallel to Serial ATA).

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