Compaq RAID Linux support (Score 3)

I didn't see any old stories about the Compaq Smart Array driver for the RAID controllers. The driver is found at: http://www.insync.net/~frantzc/cpqarray.html As a disclaimer, I design disk controller hardware for Compaq, but I haven't personally tried this driver yet. It is in the latest kernels, so a lot of people have access to it already. I don't know how many people are actually using it yet, though. The driver is open source, GPL, and was "blessed" for release by management, but is not officially supported by Compaq. The guy who wrote it and the guy who now maintains it are both employees of Compaq, and we are working on releasing an open version of the hardware spec so that others will have an easier time implementing improvements, or alternate driver implementations.