Re: More on SATA cards

[Per-Olov Sjöholm <pos@incedo.org>]

Maybe you can give me a hint of a card without a jungle of chipset and I'll 
buy it directly. 


What about the LSI card I wrote about in my first mail in this thread?
Or a hint of any other card that can't be wrong when I open the box and try 
it.?
(And we are only talking about SATA hardware mirroring here. I now have a Dell 
400SC with an unusable promise card. I want my two 250GB SATA drive to 
appears as one for OpenBSD with hardware mirror in the controller card.)


Tnx
Per-Olov

On Monday 01 November 2004 14.37, Marco Peereboom wrote:
> 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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