[arch] Intel SRCS16 SATA RAID controller

[Roman Kyrylych]

Hi!

> i have the need for speed!  ok that, and some redundancy, and i was
> interested in the Intel SRCS16 6 port SATA hardware RAID.  I'm going to be
> running this on a system i'm currently building, and i was wondering if this
> card is supported in Arch "out-of-box".

Yes.
We have such RAID controller, the server is running Debian GNU/Linux
with megaraid driver.

>From http://linuxmafia.com/faq/Hardware/sata.html :
[cite]
Intel SRCS16 and SRCS28X Serial ATA RAID Controller PCI cards ― real
hardware RAID. These are six-port PCI and eight-port PCI-X cards
(respectively) for servers, based on an LSI Logic MegaRAID chipset,
driving SATA-I output using Silicon Image SiI3112A SATA-I chips (one
for each channel pair) and an Intel GC80302 or IOP331 (respectively)
dedicated I/O processor with 64MB or 128 MB of ECC SDRAM
(respectively) for processing XOR logic. Use the kernel's "megaraid2"
driver (For LSI Logic MegaRAID). The Silicon Image chips are not the
system-facing chipsets, and so don't determine driver support. An
optional battery-backup daughterboard is available.
[/cite]
So, as you see there is no need for special driver. (This page
mentions megaraid2 but our Debian server works with megaraid driver, I
don't know is there are signifficant differences).
There are firmware + update utility + RAID Web Console on Intel's site.

> Also, i skimmed over the site and could not find a hardware compatibility
> list as such, is there one but i just missed it?

What hardware compatibility list on what site do you mean?
archlinux.org has no hardware compatability list and I doubt it will ever has.

-- 
Roman Kyrylych (Роман Кирилич)