Areca ARC-1120 manual Q8 Will Areca submit the Linux code to kernel.org?, Microsoft, Red Hat, SuSE

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Q8: Will ARECA submit the Linux code to kernel.org?

Answer:

Yes. ARECA Serial ATA ll RAID the lastest driver has been integrated directly into the Linux kernel 2.6.17-rc3-mm1 (and later), allowing future versions of Linux operating systems to support Areca’s entire fam-ily PCI-X and PCI-Express series of high performance SATA ll RAID controllers.

Q9: What is the warranty period?

Answer:

Like all ARECA External RAID controllers, the PCI-X or PCI-Express SATA RAID controller is backed by a 3-year warranty.

Q10: Which O/S (Operating System) will support X86 64-bit processors?

Answer:

The following O/S vendors have announced product support for AMD64 and Intel EM64T. Contact each vendor for more details. The following is our currently supported OS and version for 64-bit pro- cessor. We will support others shortly after other versions release.

Microsoft:

Production support will be available in:

•Windows XP Professional x64 Edition

•Windows Server 2003 64-Bit Edition

Red Hat:

Production support will be available in:

• Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 update 2

SuSE:

Production support will be available in:

• SLES9

FreeBSD:

Production support will be available in:

• FreeBSD 5.3

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