From: Marco Peereboom (slashpeereboom.us)
Date: Mon Nov 01 2004 - 17:45:26 CST

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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
>>>
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