I am installing a large storage system under Debian 6.0.
We bought a HightPont RocketRAID 2720, a very powerfull card claiming to be linux compatible, but when i installed they just provide a already compiled modules for obsolete distro (at least debian 5.0.5 was available), but i hate that i want to have my hardware drivers in the default kernel so i can upgrade without any special tricks.
I would like to know what is the most powerful SAS / SATA raid controller linux natively compatible on the market.
Best Answer
A good reference for this is "Linux hardware compatibility list" => http://linuxhcl.com. Search for "RAID".
(This may not be an exhaustive list -- For a complete list I suggest browsing the Kernel source, and/or checking with your RAID controller vendor).
"Most powerful" is subjective. Google will be helpful here too (If reviews universally conclude that a product sucks, it probably does...)