HCL/RAID Controllers

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Hardware Compatibility List (HCL)
Full Systems
Laptops - Desktops - Servers - Virtual Machines
Components
Video Cards - Sound Cards - Wired Net Adapters - Wireless Adapters - Bluetooth Adapters - Printers - Scanners - TV Cards - Digital Cameras - Web Cameras - UPS - Floppy Drives
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Contents

Integrated

Vendor Chipset Model Type Driver Works
Out of
The Box
SUSE Release Comments
10.0 10.1 10.2
Intel® Intel P965
ICH8
JMicron® JMB363 PATA
SATA RAID
pata_jmicron Image:22px-Tick.png - Installation area can`t mount DVD or CD devices.
- Decision of this problem.

PCI/Cardbus

Vendor Chipset Model Type Driver Works Out of The Box SUSE Releases Comments
Adaptec Adaptec 2020SA SATA Zero Channel aacraid Image:22px-Tick.png 10.0, 10.3 - Only compatible with a few motherboards
- When using "aacraid" driver that comes with kernel this controller cannot be managed using ASM (Adaptec Storage Manager) so all operations have to be done at controller bios.
Promise Promise R20378 378 SATA
PATA
sata_promise 10.0 PATA connector works after custom kernel build (non SUSE Source). Patch
Silicon Image [[1]] 0680 SiI 0680 PATA unknown Image:22px-Tick.png 10.2 PATA Harddrive automatically detected and configured during install and thereafter for 10.2

PCIe

Vendor Chipset Model Type Driver Works
Out of
The Box
SUSE Release Comments
10.0 10.1 10.2
Areca Intel IOP332 I/O processor ARC-1210 SATA II arcmsr Image:22px-Tick.png Image:22px-Tick.png Image:22px-Tick.png Necessary to compile driver manually. Refer to Areca RAID Controllers Howto.

Areca

Areca submitted their arcmsr controller driver into the Linux Kernel in 2.6.11-rc3-mm1. Integration into mainline kernel should happen with the 2.6.19 kernel, thus will be available in 10.3 and beyond.

Internal Links

Checkout an alternative to hardware raid, software raid:
How to install SUSE Linux on software RAID

External Links

Gentoo Areca Hardware RAID Information
Serial ATA (SATA) chipsets — Linux support status
Linux SATA RAID FAQ


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