3ware Escalade ATA RAID Controller
3ware, Inc. sells several well-supported, multichannel ATA RAID controllers. Adam Radford developed an open source driver for 3ware. Joel Jacobson and Brad Strand of 3ware also worked on the driver, as well as Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo of Conectiva, Andre Hedrick of SuSE, and of course, Alan Cox.
The driver supports all 3ware controllers and has been standard in the stable Linux kernel since 2.2.15. Direct installation to 3ware controllers is simple and headache-free. You should have no issues when working with any distribution that uses a 2.4 or later kernel. I enjoyed problem-free installation using Red Hat, SuSE, and Mandrake.
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