[SGVLUG] SATA card for Fedora

[Michael Proctor-Smith]

I have had good luck with 3ware cards, there drivers are in the kernel
and they are real raid not hardware assisted software raid. But you
get what you pay for they are much more expensive. On the other hand
if the highpoint card is support in core 1-7 then the drivers are in
the kernel. But again for $118 you are most certainly getting software
raid with a bios utility to set it up.

On Jan 19, 2008 10:29 AM, Matt Campbell <dvdmatt at gmail.com> wrote:
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> I unfortunately ran out of space on my media server last week and need to
> add 4 more 1T drives, but am out of SATA ports.
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> I looked online and found a 4 port SATA II PCIe x1 card which would take
> advantage of the three unused x1 ports on my motherboard.
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> http://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductReview.aspx?Item=N82E16816115029&SortField=0&SummaryType=0&Pagesize=100&SelectedRating=-1&PurchaseMark=&VideoOnlyMark=False&Page=
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> The reviews of the card state that the manufacturer (in Milipitas) is
> *horrible* for technical support with people getting a response only after
> multiple calls and emails.
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> The manufacturer's site lists drivers for Fedora Code 1-6 and Fedora core 7.
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> Does anyone have experience with these cards (Highpoint) or can you
> recommend a good 4 port SATA2 PCI or PCIe1 card?
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> I have tried contacting the manufacturer to see if they support F8 yet, but
> am not holding my breath.
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> Thanks in advance for any experience you have had with SATA cards under
> Linux,
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> Matt
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