Date: Sat, 01 Apr 2006 12:22:41 -0500 From: Lanny Baron <lnb@freebsdsystems.com> To: nocturnal <nocturnal@swehack.se> Cc: "J. Martin Petersen" <jmp.lists@alvorlig.dk>, freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Software RAID on Dell PowerEdge SC1425 - SATA? Message-ID: <442EB6E1.7030703@freebsdsystems.com> In-Reply-To: <43FC20E6.8030706@swehack.se> References: <43F984A4.9050405@swehack.se> <43FA0AED.7010905@alvorlig.dk> <43FC20E6.8030706@swehack.se>
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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"
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