Software RAID on Dell PowerEdge SC1425 - SATA?

[J. Martin Petersen]

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