From owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Apr 1 17:22:52 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2782216A41F for ; Sat, 1 Apr 2006 17:22:52 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from lnb@freebsdsystems.com) Received: from mx1.freebsdsystems.com (mx1.FreeBSDsystems.COM [69.90.68.2]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9D36743D46 for ; Sat, 1 Apr 2006 17:22:51 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from lnb@freebsdsystems.com) Received: (qmail 74189 invoked by uid 89); 1 Apr 2006 17:22:47 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO ?192.168.0.5?) (lnb@freebsdsystems.com@216.235.8.115) by mx1.freebsdsystems.com with (DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA encrypted) SMTP; 1 Apr 2006 17:22:47 -0000 Message-ID: <442EB6E1.7030703@freebsdsystems.com> Date: Sat, 01 Apr 2006 12:22:41 -0500 From: Lanny Baron User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5 (X11/20060211) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: nocturnal References: <43F984A4.9050405@swehack.se> <43FA0AED.7010905@alvorlig.dk> <43FC20E6.8030706@swehack.se> In-Reply-To: <43FC20E6.8030706@swehack.se> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Cc: "J. Martin Petersen" , freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Software RAID on Dell PowerEdge SC1425 - SATA? X-BeenThere: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: General discussion of FreeBSD hardware List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 01 Apr 2006 17:22:52 -0000 While I can't and won't speak of dell products, I can say that our iNET SATA based Servers on-board RAID controller works with FreeBSD without issues. Regards, ______________________________________________ Lanny Baron FreeBSD Systems Toll Free: 1.877.963.1900 High Performance Rackmount Servers and RAID Storage Systems http://www.FreeBSDsystems.COM ______________________________________________ nocturnal wrote: > Hi > > I later found out that it was an Intel e7520 Chipset and i have seen on > freebsd.org that two testers have tried that card with both 5.4-STABLE > and -RELEASE. I e-mailed them and they only tried the SCSI RAID, not the > SATA. Since we decided the customer did afford SCSI i think i'm fine but > SATA RAID needs a lot of work in FreeBSD. It seems as if everyone is > afraid of it and i am to. > > Thank you for your help. > > > > Med vänliga hälsningar > > Stefan Midjich aka nocturnal > [Swehack] http://swehack.se > > > J. Martin Petersen wrote: >> nocturnal wrote: >>> Hi >>> >>> I'm wondering if anyone here knows if software RAID 1 works well on Dell >>> PowerEdge SC1425 machines with SATA disks. I hear a lot about SATA >>> software RAID not working on FreeBSD and my only experience with SATA >>> RAID and FreeBSD was full of problems so i thought i'd ask here for >>> other people with experience using Dell PowerEdge machines. >>> >>> The sales people at Dell didn't know which chipset they had in their >>> machines so maybe someone here knows? It's a 1U rack server so i assume >>> it's an onboard SATA card. >> >> We're using gmirror on ours, I haven't actually checked if the >> onboard-thing works in FreeBSD. I can get you a verboose boot from a >> PowerEdge SC1425 running FreeBSD 6.0 in a couple of days, if that has >> interest? >> >> Martin > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hardware > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-hardware-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"