[mythtv-users] Anyone using RocketRAID?

[Brian Wood]

On Mar 15, 2008, at 5:53 PM, Gordon McCrae wrote:
>>
> I'm afraid you're way off the mark there, even in the SCSI RAID  
> world OS
> support is a big issue.
>
> I can recall back in 2001 I ended up switching from Caldera eServer to
> SuSE because the latest Adaptec chipset RAID controllers in the DELL
> server I had weren't supported (i.e. the drivers hadn't be ported to
> Caldera), while they were Okay on Redhat / SuSE. I had other issues  
> with
> Redhat, so plumped for SuSE at the time (and am still using it).
>
> At the end of the day, any device needs a driver, no matter whether  
> it's
> a RAID controller or a serial port, so the inability of the guys SATA
> RAID controller to work well with Linux doesn't mean it's not a  
> hardware
> RAID card, it means the drivers / firmware / hardware don't work well
> together.

I guess the only RAID controllers I've used with Linux have been very  
common and thus well supported, and the ones I've used with Solaris  
were all supported by that OS as well.

beww