Software RAID on Dell PowerEdge SC1425 - SATA?

[nocturnal]

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