Dell Software RAID Controller S100/S300 not compatible in Linux OS

Recently, Dell offered new software RAID card, with code name: S100/S300. Beware that currently this RAID card just compatible to Windows OS, and yet to see for future improvement that can work with Linux OS as well.

Specification	PERC S100 controller	PERC S300 controller
SAS technology	No	Yes
SATA technology	Yes	Yes
eSATA technology	Yes	No
SSD technology	Yes	No
Support for x8 PCI-E Host Interface	No	Yes
I/O Controller	Intel™ ICH10R or Intel™ Ibex Peak chipsets	Dell 3Gb/s SAS Adapter
Communication to the system	Integrated	PCI-E lanes
Communication to end devices	SATA links	SAS/SATA links
SAS connectors	No	Two 4-port connectors on all systems
SATA connectors	Discrete on the motherboard	Two 4-port connectors on all systems
Lead-free	Yes	Yes
Supported operating systems	Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Family, Microsoft Windows Server 2008 Family, Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2
Dell-compliant SATA compatibility	Yes	Yes
Dell-compliant SAS compatibility	No	Yes
Dell-supported direct-connected end devices	Dell-compliant physical disks	Dell-compliant physical disks
SMART error support through management applications	No	No
Backplane supported systems	No	Yes
Software-based RAID	Volume, RAID 1, RAID 0, RAID 5, RAID 10	Volume, RAID 1, RAID 0, RAID 5, RAID 10
Maximum number of virtual disks	8	8
Support for internal tape drive	Yes	No
Support for global hot spare	Yes	Yes
Maximum number of hot spares	Varies (by the number of free disks in the system)	Varies (by the number of free disks in the system)

Reference: http://support.dell.com/support/edocs/storage/Storlink/PERC_S100_S300/en/HTML/a5_sectd.htm#wp1201881