Date: Thu, 17 Jun 2004 15:58:12 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug Ambrisko <ambrisko@ambrisko.com> To: oyvinht@orakel.ntnu.no Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Dell PE750 w/SATA Message-ID: <200406172258.i5HMwCAC083829@ambrisko.com> In-Reply-To: <20040617223849.GA30665@orakel.ntnu.no>
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Øyvin Halfdan Thuv writes: [ Charset ISO-8859-1 unsupported, converting... ] | Doug Ambrisko, | > UEDA Hiroyuki writes: | > | > I'm planning to set up a system as described below, but I want to hear if anyone | > | > else on this list has had any experience with a similar setup before I put it | > | > into production use. | > | > | > | > It is a Dell PE750 with: | > | (snip) | > | > - CERC SATA RAID Controller (6 channel) | > | | > | Though I have tested Dell PE750 with SATA RAID1(without SCSI) using | > | FreeBSD 5.2.1-RELEASE-p8, the installer could not find the disk :-(. | > | | > | But Ushine Hiroyuki has reported he can boot with some patch derived | > | from OpenBSD aac code. | > | > Scott added the PCI device ID's to -current atleast. I have a bunch of | > the CERC SATA cards around here but haven't recently tested them recently. | > We went with my SATA/ata-raid patches and skipped the CERC card. | | OK. I'll report back if it works well with 5.2.1-p8. Thanks a lot! | | Any other feedback is still welcome if there are any. I wish Dell made the SATA bays hot-swap and put the Intel RAID BIOS extension in Dells BIOS. That way we could boot of a stripe or broken mirror. We do a trick to make both SATA ports be master. So the BIOS in general could be richer/better. Performance is pretty good on the box. BTW I just stuck one of those CERC cards in a test box and it booted fine with -current. Doug A.
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