working hardware sata pci raid controller under gentoo

[alex.blackbit]

please tell me about your experiences.
i need a sata raid controller. HARDWARE raid. really hardware raid. no disks visible in the os. only volumes created in raid controller bios.
interface: pci
possibly one listed on this website. please excuse the german language, but the list should be understandable for everybody.
i once had big problems with a PARTLY open source driver of a adaptec controller, so now i am asking before buying.
this one looks good to me, but i am unsure if it will work correctly under gentoo. driver support is only for major distributions...

and thoughts welcome

--alex

[cyrillic]

The ones on that list from 3ware and Areca are hardware RAID, and they are supported in the vanilla kernels.

[alex.blackbit]

thank you for the answer. i did not see that for some reason in makeconfig.