Re: More on SATA cards

[Marco Peereboom <slash@peereboom.us>]

Did some research and I'll be damned.  Sorry you were right.

I have no clue about promise products so I won't be able to help you.

/marco

On Nov 1, 2004, at 3:42 AM, Per-Olov Sjöholm wrote:

> Yes they do!
>
> Dell delivered my new 400SC server with a Promise S150 TX2  
> (PDC20371).. This
> server was delivered to me three weeks ago. And it wont work on 
> OpenBSD 3.6
> due to lack of PDC20371 support ....... So Dell do deliver Promise!
>
> What was the controller Dell used before for CERC-SATA ?
>
>
> /Per-Olov
>
> On Sunday 31 October 2004 23.34, Marco Peereboom wrote:
>> Dell does not sell Promise on it's servers.
>>
>> All megaraid adapters use ami(4) so hack the PCI ID's in the driver 
>> and
>> you should be good to go.
>>
>> On Oct 31, 2004, at 4:06 PM, Per-Olov Sjöholm wrote:
>>> Hi !
>>>
>>> I earlier posted about the Dell CERC SATA card that is now a promise
>>> PDC20371 that is NOT supported by OpenBSD. To bad... (Maybe the
>>> http://www.openbsd.org/i386.html list should be updated with this?)
>>> I have been looking around in the "Promise" jungle. Obviously there 
>>> is
>>> no
>>> Promise SATA card that is supported by OpenBSD 3.6 (yet) that I am
>>> aware
>>> of. There are so many chipset from promise, but no SATA chipsets
>>> supported.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> I simply want to buy a good stable mirroring capable card. And I do 
>>> not
>>> want to buy an unusable card. It seems like LSI does not have that 
>>> many
>>> different versions.
>>> This list came from a an LSI firmware readme file:
>>> OEM			Product Name		Ser
>>>
>>> LSI			MegaRAID SCSI 320-0	520-0
>>> LSI			MegaRAID SCSI 320-1	520
>>> LSI			MegaRAID SCSI 320-2	518
>>> LSI			MegaRAID SCSI 320-2X	532
>>> LSI			MegaRAID SCSI 320-4X	531
>>> LSI			MegaRAID SCSI 320-2	EEP078
>>> LSI			MegaRAID SATA 150-2	534
>>> LSI			MegaRAID SATA 150-4	523
>>> LSI			MegaRAID SATA 150-6	523
>>>
>>> Does anybody know if the "SATA RAID 150-4" card is supported by
>>> OpenBSD?
>>> Is this one of the cards that is written as "LSI/Symbios 523 SATA" on
>>> the
>>> OpenBSD compat list? Can this card be found in other versions that 
>>> wont
>>> work with OpenBSD? (It cost approx 300$, which is much for a home
>>> server)
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Or can anybody give a good choice of a SATA mirroring capable card 
>>> for
>>> OpenBSD that is not to expensive or exist in to many chipsets with 
>>> the
>>> risk to buy an unusable/unsupported one...
>>>
>>>
>>> Thanks in advance
>>> Per
>
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