[ILUG] Highpoint Sata RAID

[Rick Moen]

Quoting FRLinux (frlinux at gmail.com):

> Right, that sums it up, for proper hardware, i should still look for
> these *cough* expensive 3ware cards.

Or save money by just using regular ATA interfaces and the Linux "md"
driver.

> To push the flam^[C debate a bit further, has anyone heard of proper
> hardware cards  for linux/bsd announced on Serial ATA 2 specs ?

As I'm sure you know, cards implementing SATA-II specs are pretty new --
as are SATA HDs that don't rely on a PATA/SATA bridge chip.

I put everything I know on the subject into my SATA on Linux page
("Serial ATA" on http://linuxmafia.com/kb/Hardware/), but you might want
to cross-reference that and, of course, Jeff Garzik's indispensible
libata-related pages, against the recent Tweakers.net review piece:
http://www.tweakers.net/reviews/557/9

How well such things actually work on Linux/BSD, and exactly how much
hassle one encounters installing and stabilising such things, is
something we'll know after you put up a Web page about it.  ;->

(E.g., Carlos Vidal recently did so about his experience with Fedora
Core 3 and a brand-new Marvell-based SATA-II card:
http://www.keffective.com/mvsata/  Try 
http://216.239.63.104/search?q=cache:www.keffective.com/mvsata/ if it's
unreachable.)