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Areca fully series SAS and SATA RAID drivers work properly with Fedora Core 8 kernel driver

Taipei, Taiwan, November 13, 2007-- Areca Technology Corporation (ARECA), today announced that their SAS and SATA ll RAID controllers driver can work properly with the Fedora 8 (and later) kernel driver, allowing future versions of Fedora operating systems to support Areca's entire family 4-, 8-, 12-, 16-, 24-port series of high performance SAS (ARC-1680 series) and SATA ll (ARC-11xx/12xx) RAID controllers.

Fedora is a Linux-based operating system that showcases the latest in free and open source software. Fedora isalways free for anyone to use, modify, and distribute.Areca drivers were officially merged in the 2.6.19 Kernel tree. Areca driver has integrated into the Fedora 7 which has based on the kernel 2.6.22.4-65.fc7. But, the Fedora Unity Project has a critical issue to enable Areca kernel driver installation and this bug has not been fixed in that edition.

If you use FC7 x86_64 edition, you need to download our installation driver disk to install system into Areca volume. But, the FC7 i386 standard edition kernel doesn't accept both Areca kernel GPL driver modules and installation driver. You will not be able to install this Linux edition into Areca volume.

The Fedora Unity Project found the issue and has fixed the original bug on the FC8. Now you will be able to install OS into Areca fully series 4-, 8-, 12-, 16-, 24-port SAS and SATA RAID controller volume without adding any driver or patch on the new released FC8 edition.

About Areca Technology Corporation
Areca Technology Corporation designs and manufactures storage products for virtually all areas of the storage market including DAS, NAS, and SAN. All PCI, SCSI, and Fiber Disk Array Controllers support RAID levels 0, 1, 3, 5, 6, 10 or JBOD. It also produces its own custom ASIC, a high-speed IDE controller, and a RAID 6 engine on their controllers to achieve high data throughput and availability. Areca has completely committed its highly skilled research and development effort to disk array technologies that yield the fastest performance, best reliability, and lower cost points than competitive disk array solutions.

More information is available at http://www.areca.com.tw

Areca is a registered trademark of Areca Technology Corporation. Other brand names and product names are trademark or registered trademarks of their respective companies.

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