Software RAID on Dell PowerEdge SC1425 - SATA?

[Lanny Baron]

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,
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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
> 
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