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Adaptec 8805 RAID card fully compatible with Server 2012 R2?

Is the Adaptec 8805 RAID controller card fully compatible with Server 2012 R2?

The homepage for this RAID controller card is http://www.adaptec.com/en-us/support/raid/sas_raid/asr-8805/.

The downloads tab of this webpage says "Note: Only drivers that are not included or embedded within a supported operating system are listed below. To see a complete list of supported operating systems see the Product Specifications."

This downloads tab does not list the Server 2012 R2 operating system (which could be because the Server 2012 R2 OS already has the built in drivers for this RAID controller card).

Upon clicking on the Product Specifications tab of this webpage there is a list of supported operating systems: Microsoft Windows,
Red Hat Linux, SUSE Linux, Fedora, Debian Linux, Ubuntu Linux, Sun Solaris, FreeBSD, and VMware ESXi.

Does this mean that the Server 2012 R2 operating system is fully supported by the Adaptec 8805 RAID controller card?

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I also emailed Adaptec and they also confirmed that this RAID controller card is fully compatible with Server 2012 R2.

I always need to make sure that such important products are fully compatible before purchasing them.