I've used Mylex DAC960 and Compaq SMARTarray-2 cards. Both worked fine.
Linux supports a few more cards like the DPT ones, but i've never used
them.
RedHat 6 installs straight onto Compaq SMARTarray-2 based system's - no
need to install onto a disk on a normal controller first. I think the
same goes for the Mylex cards.
The older i960 based DAC960's are pretty slow though. The newer
StrongARM based Mylex eXtreme cards are supposed to be a lot faster
(allegedly).
And if you're skint you could always try linux software RAID which will
knock the socks off any hardware controller speedwise.
-paul jakma.
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