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On Jan 26, 2004, at 4:27 AM, Mike Woods wrote:

> Whats the current state of play with sata in 5.2, I know it's 
> supported and I Know some have had issues, but overall whats the 
> general view on it, what controllers have people had the most luck 
> with, how well supported is SATA Raid ?
>
> This may seem random but some time this year I intend to upgrade my 
> file server and im quite possibly going to move to sata (im looking at 
> a 2u case with inbuilt caddies, so it's one or the other)

I use the adaptec 2410SA.  It doesn't use the SATA/ATA drivers, but 
rather the aac ones, and seems to work pretty well.  So far no 
problems.

I am using it in mirror RAID 1 mode, but it supports 0, 1, 5, 1+0, 
JBODs at least.

Chad