From owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Feb 20 18:31:14 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 4811316A420 for ; Mon, 20 Feb 2006 18:31:14 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from jmp.lists@alvorlig.dk) Received: from cauchy.aub.dk (cauchy.aub.dk [194.255.124.240]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D168643D48 for ; Mon, 20 Feb 2006 18:31:13 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from jmp.lists@alvorlig.dk) Received: from localhost (localhost.aub.dk [127.0.0.1]) by cauchy.aub.dk (Postfix) with ESMTP id BBB0011A2D; Mon, 20 Feb 2006 19:31:11 +0100 (CET) Received: from cauchy.aub.dk ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (cauchy.aub.dk [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 14383-03; Mon, 20 Feb 2006 19:31:10 +0100 (CET) Received: from [10.1.4.50] (unknown [10.1.4.50]) by cauchy.aub.dk (Postfix) with ESMTP id ED56F119F8; Mon, 20 Feb 2006 19:31:09 +0100 (CET) Message-ID: <43FA0AED.7010905@alvorlig.dk> Date: Mon, 20 Feb 2006 19:31:09 +0100 From: "J. Martin Petersen" User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5 (X11/20060112) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org References: <43F984A4.9050405@swehack.se> In-Reply-To: <43F984A4.9050405@swehack.se> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at aub.dk Cc: nocturnal@swehack.se 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: Mon, 20 Feb 2006 18:31:14 -0000 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