Vendor information

3Ware (​http://www.3ware.com) card are usually well supported on Linux. Theses cards are often considered as some of the bests hardware RAID controllers for GNU/Linux or BSD systems. 3Ware supports Linux and provide an opensource kernel driver which is part of Linux since ages.

Linux kernel drivers

There is two drivers for 3ware cards:

Driver	Supported cards
3w_xxxx	3Ware Eskalad 7000 and 8000 series
3w_9xxx	3Ware Eskaled 9000 series

You should not expect any problems with theses drivers which are known to be mature and stable ! We don't know any current Linux distrubtion which miss theses drivers so no additional step should be required to get it working.