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3ware SATA RAID card.


Ooh, £229 + VAT for the 3ware 8506-4LP (4 port). From here. I'm sure I'll be able to find cheaper with some more looking, but that's cheaper than I was expecting already.

One question: PCI compatibility. I assume that my A7V is old enough to still be 32-bit PCI-33. The 8000-series Escalade cards are 64-bit/66MHz. Presumably this will still work, just at degraded performance?

Oh, and 3ware only claim support for Red Hat and SuSE. I thought that support was in the kernel sources, meaning that I'll be fine with Debian (currently using a 2.4 kernel), or is it a binary driver, which will be a headache?
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