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Areca make some SATA RAID controllers, noted for having an open source driver (arcmsr).

Red Hat Enterprise/CentOS/OpenFiler notes

A driver disk for ARC-1110/1120/1160/1170 (4/8/12/16/24-port PCI-X to SATA ll RAID Controller) for CentOS can be found at http://www.bodgit-n-scarper.com/code.html#centos.

Debian notes

Installation CDs with Areca support can be found at http://www.tienhuis.nl/areca/.

Ubuntu notes

Installed Dapper Flight 5 to an Areca RAID controller. It found the controller, installed/partitioned fine etc, but on the reboot into the new system it could not find /dev/sda1 so could not proceed with boot.

This can be fixed by booting into a recovery console, mounting the disk, adding 'arcmsr' to /etc/mkinitramfs/modules, and running dpkg-reconfigure linux-image-`uname -r`.