From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jun 17 22:39:04 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CEB7E16A4CE for ; Thu, 17 Jun 2004 22:39:04 +0000 (GMT) Received: from apollo.orakel.ntnu.no (apollo.orakel.ntnu.no [129.241.186.245]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 835F243D5A for ; Thu, 17 Jun 2004 22:39:03 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from oyvinht@orakel.ntnu.no) Received: (qmail 30773 invoked by uid 1019); 17 Jun 2004 22:38:49 -0000 Date: Fri, 18 Jun 2004 00:38:49 +0200 From: =?iso-8859-1?Q?=D8yvin?= Halfdan Thuv To: Doug Ambrisko Message-ID: <20040617223849.GA30665@orakel.ntnu.no> References: <20040617090559.0E7D.UEDA@netforest.ad.jp> <200406171653.i5HGrPPi064062@ambrisko.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: <200406171653.i5HGrPPi064062@ambrisko.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.28i cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Dell PE750 w/SATA X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: oyvinht@orakel.ntnu.no List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 17 Jun 2004 22:39:04 -0000 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. -- Øyvin