On Mon, 21 Jan 2008, Quentin Garnier wrote:
Does any other BSD (or Linux) support ServeRAID? Is proper documentation available for it. I don't have any money for hardware at the moment, but I'd be interested in working on this if hardware documentation is available.There is a Linux driver, present at least in SLES 10 and some RHEL, and IBM provides it originally, and you can find updates on IBM's web site.
I seem to remember that someone posted an initial stab at a driver quite a while ago now.
IBM themselves use Linux to do the automated installed (ServerGuide).
I happen to have done raw performance tests the past week because of a project at work involving that very system, and I can't say I'm impressed with the speed, at least with SATA disks.
The S-ATA RAID1 performance on (e.g.) x3250 sucks (even under Windows). The full on ServeRAID RAID-5 with 15k SAS disks is a different matter...
-- Stephen