= LSI MegaRAID =

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= 1. Card information =

MegaRAID is the legacy high-end RAID controllers series by LSI.
[[BR]]It is fully hardware RAIDs controllers supporting RAID5, at least, with various SCSI interfaces.
[[BR]]If you're a looking for information about MegaRAID with SAS or SATA connectors, please look at LSIMegaRAIDSAS instead.

All theses card can be used with stock Linux kernel which includes a '''working driver'''. Both '''opensource reporting''' [[BR]]tool and '''proprietary management''' utilities exists.

Even there are old and deprecated, theses cards are a '''good choice''' for Linux, because of their '''great support'''.

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= 2. Linux kernel drivers =

|| Driver || Supported cards ||
|| megaraid_mm & megaraid_mbox || LSI MegaRAID ||

''megaraid_mm'' and ''megaraid_mbox'' have been part of the mainstream Linux kernel for a while and should be '''available''' in all '''current Linux distributions'''.

If your card use ''megaraid_sas'' driver, please lookg at LSIMegaRAIDSAS instead.

Some ''lspci -nn' output examples:
  * 02:0e.0 RAID bus controller [0104]: Dell PowerEdge Expandable RAID controller 4 [1028:0013] (rev 06)
  * 04:03.0 RAID bus controller [0104]: Dell PowerEdge Expandable RAID controller 4/Di [1028:000f] (rev 02)