hardware raid solutions?

[Felipe Figueiredo]

On Saturday 08 July 2006 21:31, David Abrahams wrote:
> "Eric S. Johansson" <esj at harvee.org> writes:
> > I need a relatively low-cost hardware raid solution (not pseudo
> > hardware) so I can implement raid five on the root and boot
> > partitions. For a variety of reasons, I would take quite a bit of
> > convincing to use software raid for this application.
>
> Considering the trouble I've been having getting a bootable dmraid/LVM
> setup going (weeks of pain, no gain) I think that's a good choice.
>
> Does anyone happen to know if hardware RAID is easier to configure
> than software RAID?

What kind of problem did you have setting software raid? You used mdadm or 
raidtools?