Dell PE750 w/SATA

ØyvinHalfdan Thuv oyvinht at orakel.ntnu.no
Thu Jun 17 22:39:04 GMT 2004


Doug Ambrisko, 
> UEDA Hiroyuki writes:
> | > I'm planning to set up a system as described below, but I want to hear if anyone
> | > else on this list has had any experience with a similar setup before I put it
> | > into production use.
> | > 
> | > It is a Dell PE750 with:
> | (snip)
> | > - CERC SATA RAID Controller (6 channel) 
> | 
> |   Though I have tested Dell PE750 with SATA RAID1(without SCSI) using
> | FreeBSD 5.2.1-RELEASE-p8, the installer could not find the disk :-(. 
> | 
> |   But Ushine Hiroyuki has reported he can boot with some patch derived
> | from OpenBSD aac code. 
> 
> Scott added the PCI device ID's to -current atleast.  I have a bunch of 
> the CERC SATA cards around here but haven't recently tested them recently.
> We went with my SATA/ata-raid patches and skipped the CERC card.

OK. I'll report back if it works well with 5.2.1-p8. Thanks a lot!

Any other feedback is still welcome if there are any.

-- 
Øyvin



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