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?
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