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3Ware (​http://www.3ware.com) card are usually well supported on Linux. Theses cards are often considered as some of the bests hardware RAID controllers for GNU/Linux or BSD systems. 3Ware supports Linux and provide an opensource kernel driver which is part of Linux since ages.

There is two drivers for 3ware cards: ^Driver Supported cards ^{| 3w_xxxx | 3Ware Eskalad 7000 and 8000 series | | 3w_9xxx | 3Ware Eskaled 9000 series |}

You should not expect any problems with theses drivers which are known to be mature and stable !