Redhat + Serial ATA

Has anyone had any luck with it.

[NickCoons]

I'm looking to put together a new server for a friend of mine. I'm not a big Redhat user (prefer Slackware myself), but he's using Redhat v8.0. We're looking at the ASUS A7N8X motherboard with built-in Serial ATA RAID.

Before we lay the money out for the hardware (as much fun as it is to play with), I want to make sure that all of this is supported by his current version of Redhat. If not, I'd like to know what things I need to watch out for.

From searching around on the net, I can't find an instance of where anyone stated that they've tried this, so if anyone here has any input, I'd be happy to hear it.

[eaden]

I can only talk about the Silicon Image Serial ATA which comes onboard on on some intel MB's.

The short answer :
It works.

The long answer :
There are a few driver options, for redhat we used a suplied binary module for redhat, there is a driver in kernel 2.4.21-rc1 but it's buggy / slow, apparently the driver in 2.5 is better but I can't get 2.5 to boot!

For debian the outlook isn't so good, as the binary module is compiled with redhat's gcc.

If you are happy with the Redhat kernel, then the sii5112? ( something112 ) will work.

[Duckula]

as the binary module is compiled with redhat's gcc

Is that a c++ module? As far as I know, pure C binaries have no trouble between compilers.

[eaden]

>> Is that a c++ module? As far as I know, pure C binaries have no trouble between compilers.

It's probally C,
however, from what I have read, using a Kernel module compiled with a different compiler than the Kernel was compiled with, can cause instability. I can't remember where i read that, think it was on the kernel mailing list.

For example, I tried to use that module with the debian kernel, and it crashed the kernel!