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Adaptect (and other) ATA cards



I've been searching for RAID cards and regular ATA cards.  I want to use 
either a good hardware RAID card that supports RAID 5, or an ATA card that 
works well with Linux.  While searching, I've found more comments online 
about RAID cards that do NOT work well with Linux than ones that do.  Even 
when I've found a good RAID card (as in works with Linux), it turns out a lot 
of people have serious trouble with it.

So, for now, I'm simplifying it and looking for an ATA card and planning on 
using mdadm to run the RAID.  Whatever I get, I want to put it in and have it 
running quickly.  I've found an Adaptec 133/100 Ultra ATA card (ASH-1233), 
but I can't find anything clear about using it on Linux.  Usually if a card 
is bad, I see a lot of problems on the web, but when I searched for info on 
this card, I found hardly anything -- and nothing really useful except for 1 
bad experience, which could have been due to hardware failure.

So are IDE cards so standardized that I don't find many hits on them when 
looking for Linux compatibility because it is a non-issue (like trying to 
find a Linux compatible hard drive would give few hits because it is a 
non-issue), or is there some other reason I can't find much on this Adaptec 
card in specific and IDE cards in general?

Also, if anyone has a RAID card that does hardware RAID, without using the 
driver to do all the work, and can do RAID 5 (and, preferably, is hot 
swappable under Linux), I'd like to hear about it.

Thanks!

Hal



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