Debian, 3Ware RAID controllers & Opterons

[Frank Wiles]

On Fri, 14 Oct 2005 11:26:44 -0500
Charles Steinkuehler <charles at steinkuehler.net> wrote:

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> We're finally going to buy some 'real' server systems at my company
> and I'm wondering if anyone has experience with some of the hardware
> we're looking at.
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> The systems will be dual AMD Opteron (Tyan 2882 motherboards), with
> 3Ware 12-port SATA RAID controllers (9500S-12).
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> - - Has anyone used the current 3Ware drivers with linux (preferrably
> in a compile-your-own kernel environment)?

  We just recently ordered some similar servers and while we don't have
  them yet I can say I've heard nothing but good things about the 3Ware
  SATA RAID controllers under Linux. 

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   Frank Wiles <frank at wiles.org>
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