Does Debian Support PERC & PERC 3 RAID?

[ceboston@comcast.net (Charles E. Boston)]

Hi there,

Here's my dilemma. I own an old Dell PowerEdge 2300 that is is very good 
operating condition and it still takes care of my needs. I would like to install 
a Linux OS on it to dual boot with Windows Server 2003. The Windows OS is 
installed The drives are partitioned and waiting for the my Linux OS of choice. 
I have tried several distros but none have recognized my RAID configuration (Dell PERC 2/SC). All have been unable to detect the hard drives. 

>From what I have been told it seems that support for PERC 2 & PERC 3 RAID is not 
included in the 2.6 Linux kernel. So, I am on the hunt for a server distro that 
will work with my old hardware. Could that be the current Debian distro, and older Debian distro or are there others that I should consider? Thanks!

Charles