Re: More on SATA cards

[Per-Olov Sjöholm <pos@incedo.org>]

(Why are we top posting. did I start this...)

Is the Dell CERC SATA (as you knew it) an LSI ? What card model is it ? Can I 
buy an old version of  DELL CERC SATA  separately? Even if I can, I must know 
what to ask for so I don't get another Promise card...

Do you know if the "LSI SATA RAID 150-4" is the one called  "LSI/Symbios 523 
SATA" card on the OpenBSD hardward compat list? 
DO you know if the "LSI SATA RAID 150-4" exist with other series than 523 ? If 
not, this could be a card to go for.


Tnx
Per-Olov

On Tuesday 02 November 2004 00.45, Marco Peereboom wrote:
> I played with the Adaptec SATA/Dell CERC SATA product and works fine.
> I am also relatively sure I played with the LSI/Dell CERC SATA as well
> however I am not 100% sure (could have been the PATA version).
>
> On Nov 1, 2004, at 11:56 AM, Per-Olov Sjöholm wrote:
> > 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