Re: Adaptec Hardware Raid Controller

[Hans du Plooy <koffiejunkielistlurker@koffiejunkie.za.net>]

On Sat, 2006-09-16 at 00:57 +0200, Hans du Plooy wrote:
> On Thu, 2006-09-14 at 15:00 -0700, Gary Catalano wrote:
> > Is the Adaptec hardware raid controller (I'm thinking of getting a
> > 2410SA) supported in the 2.6 kernel?  
> 
> If you're talking about the *current* 2.6 kernel, yes:
> 
> 0000:02:09.0 RAID bus controller: Adaptec AAC-RAID (rev 01)
>         Subsystem: Adaptec AAR-2410SA PCI SATA 4ch (Jaguar II)
>         Flags: bus master, 66Mhz, slow devsel, latency 32, IRQ 9
>         Memory at f0000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=ec640000]
>         Expansion ROM at 00008000 [disabled]
>         Capabilities: [80] Power Management version 2
> 
> I have it running under 2.6.14
> 
> Hans

Just to add to this.  This is an excellent, hardware raid
implementation.  Of all the cards I've used CPU usage is the lowest, and
I've had discs fail and have not been disappointed by how the card
handles that scenario.


Hans