From owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Feb 22 08:31:05 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 4E8F616A420 for ; Wed, 22 Feb 2006 08:31:05 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from nocturnal@swehack.se) Received: from perl.se (perl.se [82.99.44.80]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 80EF943D46 for ; Wed, 22 Feb 2006 08:31:03 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from nocturnal@swehack.se) Received: from mail2.swebase.com (mail2.swebase.com [82.99.44.25]) by perl.se (8.12.11/8.12.11) with ESMTP id k1M8dDIf008537 for ; Wed, 22 Feb 2006 09:39:15 +0100 (CET) Received: from [82.99.47.5] by mail2.swebase.com (MDaemon.PRO.v8.1.0.R) with ESMTP id 27-md50000005020.msg for ; Wed, 22 Feb 2006 09:29:36 +0100 Message-ID: <43FC20E6.8030706@swehack.se> Date: Wed, 22 Feb 2006 09:29:26 +0100 From: nocturnal User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5 (X11/20060116) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "J. Martin Petersen" References: <43F984A4.9050405@swehack.se> <43FA0AED.7010905@alvorlig.dk> In-Reply-To: <43FA0AED.7010905@alvorlig.dk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Spam-Processed: mail2.swebase.com, Wed, 22 Feb 2006 09:29:36 +0100 (not processed: message from trusted or authenticated source) X-MDRemoteIP: 82.99.47.5 X-Return-Path: nocturnal@swehack.se X-MDaemon-Deliver-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Cc: 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: Wed, 22 Feb 2006 08:31:05 -0000 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