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Oh, and 3ware only claim support for Red Hat and SuSE. I thought that support was in the kernel sources, meaning that I'll be fine with Debian (currently using a 2.4 kernel), or is it a binary driver, which will be a headache?

It's certainly in 2.4.26 and IIRC has been in 2.4 for a while: CONFIG_BLK_DEV_3W_XXXX_RAID.

OTOH Mark Lord has been dropping hints on this BBS recently about working on Linux drivers for some unspecified but really nice SATA controller. And I notice today that there seems to be something called SATA-2 which I hadn't previously heard of. So if you can wait a bit there might be something more tasty coming along.

Peter