I have a motherboard with the Intel ICH8R chipset. This chipset supports raid. Why the makers of OpenSUSE decided not to put RAID support for these extremely common chipsets seems a little ridiculous if you ask me.
Anyway can someone please tell me which SATA card I can use that is compatible with OpenSUSE 11 out-of-the-box? I contacted Promise and they said that the EX4350 is compatible with SUSE 11; however, I am not interested in dropping $350 - $500 on a freaking card.
I am looking for a SATA card that will support at least 2 SATA 3.0 GBs drives. RAID is not required, and can be PCIe, PCI-X, or PCI. Also I would like it to be around $100 or so and most importantly I would like it to be able to support OpenSUSE out-of-the-box, I don’t want to spend 3 days trying to compile drivers and 80 different workarounds.
Sorry I should have been more specific about my environment.
On this MB I have 6 SATA ports that are on the intel chipset, you can enable or disable RAID. Right now I have RAID enabled because I have 4 disks RAID’d for storage. I cannot specify to have 4 on RAID and 2 that are not on RAID, it is either all or none.
I have a smaller drive on the same chipset that is not part of the RAID array that I use to install OS’s, but it is still being controlled in RAID mode by the intel chipset.
So because SUSE doesn’t support this chipset in RAID mode, I need to get the OS HD off the RAID’d intel chipset and onto a card that is supported by SUSE.
Software RAID won’t work either because I use this with a few different OS’s.
So I think if I can find a fairly reasonably priced SATA card that SUSE supports OOB it would solve all my problems.