For a Dell PowerEdge T310 that I haven't yet, I was wondering if its RAID cards are supported by distributions using ".deb" packages like Debian or Ubuntu.
On Dell's web site, I could only find drivers for Red Hat (and CentOS, Fedora) or Windows, but not for the Debian family.
Has anyone a Dell PowerEdge T310 with hardware RAID 1 based on the H200 or H700 card?
Best Answer
Most PCI-based "real" SATA/SAS RAID controllers (not "fakeraid") don't need special drivers. This is not excusively the case (I'm sure a lot of us have had to scramble for HBA drivers for new Windows releases).
You'll be fine with any modern operating system on that platform. If you're doing Debian or Ubuntu from within the last 3-4 years, there'll be no issue.
Dell cards are just rebranded LSI MegaRaid devices, so the LSI management tools generally work fine with them. You can get
megaclifor most platforms.