Re: Areca SATA cards

[Hans du Plooy <hansdp-lists@sagacit.com>]

Ronny Adsetts wrote:

> Running it in RAID-5 mode. No complaints. The driver is GPL and in the 
> most recent mm kernels I think. Downloaded from the Areca website, it 
> complied out of tree straight away. There is a link on there website 
> to a sarge install CD with the drivers included. I've see a few ML 
> comments that indicate the driver needs some cleanup, but I've had no 
> crashes so far.

Great to hear!

> Let me know if you want any non-destructive testing run on it (and 
> what you want run) and I'll see what I can do.

If you can, I would appreciate it.  If you have any disc other than the 
raid set, internal or a USB2 maybe - if the raid set can write at a 
sustained 30MB/s, I'm happy!

Thanks
Hans