[olug] Linux friendly SATA RAID controller

[Daniel Linder]

On September 11, 2007 Shawn Mattingly wrote:
> Adaptec's drivers have gotten a lot better...to the point of being
> accepted by the kernel hackers for inclusion into the mainline kernel. I
> have been eyeing the Adaptec RAID 3405 for purchase:
>
> http://www.adaptec.com/en-US/products/sas_cards/value/SAS-3405/

Hi, I'm bringing up this thread again. :-)

I'm needing to play with VMWare ESX Server 3 on the cheap.  The ESX
installer specifically checks for certain features of the driver, one in
particular is that the HDD controller returns that it is a SCSI
controller.