3ware 8006-2LP. is it (fairly) effortless?
 

Ok, I am switching out what winds up being a 2 fold P.O.S. SATA Intel Raid card with something else.

All I want is good hardware raid, and for Linux to treat the device like any other SCSI device. After various patches and atempts and kernel rebuilds on a very unstable system I am sick of it and I am just going to dump this SCRS14L I am using now.

I am looking at the 3ware 8006-2LP, since its less than $150 retail, has the features I want and 3ware has a very good rep with Linux users.

All I want to know is this, how is the 8006-2LP seen by the kernel, is it seen as somethign that needs SATA suppot, or is it treated like just another SCSI device. That being said is everything I need to get it working IN the kernel and is there any caveats I should watch out for?

Also does anyone want to buy a SCRS14L.... cheap?

Very effortless, it took me a while to convince work to switch over to 3ware kit for our ATA hardware raid needs. Yes, the 3ware supported kernel module works great, its in the default kernel since... like 2.2.16 or something and covers all the way up to the 9000 series.

Cheers,

Finegan