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3Ware Escalade 8xxx family (e.g., 8506, 8006) — real hardware RAID. Supported by its own (3w-xxxx) driver in 2.4.18 or earlier: essentially any recent 2.4 kernel. Uses exact same driver as prior (non-SATA) 7xxx series. Faster at sequential reads than the Adaptec cards, if you tune the readahead buffers. Note: 3Ware provides utilities to support ATA hotswap with its host adapters (only), if using suitable drive enclosures/connectors.
You will,if Im not mistaken,have to use a 2.4 variaty kernel after 2.4.18 because 2.6 doesnt do hardware raid...well,it didnt when I needed it.It may now.
edit;
Looks like 2.6 kernel does support hardware raid but not for that card.
HP (/Compaq) SA5xxx — real hardware RAID. Supported in 2.6.6 and later kernels using the Compaq CISS (cciss) driver.
Last edited by ironwalker; 02-25-2005 at 05:16 PM.
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