From: Kevin (kkadowgmail.com)
Date: Mon Nov 01 2004 - 21:51:37 CST

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On Mon, 1 Nov 2004 11:51:43 -0600, Scott Gerhardt <scottg-it.ca> wrote:
> I have been looking for exactly the same thing.... a SATA card that
> does true hardware RAID 1.
> The only inexpensive 2 channel card that I have found is:
> 3Ware 8006-2LP Up to 2 Serial ATA 0,1, JBOD.

It looks like even Adaptec's inexpensive ($75) SATA card (1210SA) is
doing the "hostraid" software-driver thing. How the mighty have
fallen

> Unfortunately 3Ware is not very cooperative with OpenBSD. Apparently
> there are lots of 4 channel cards that work but they are around $500
> CAD. The 3Ware 8006-2LP listed above is about $225 CAD.

The 3Ware goes for $137US, which wouldn't be a bad price for a RAID
controller, if it were supported under OpenBSD.

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

I've been using the Dell PE1750 and 2650, these are their more
expensive servers, and come with the "PERC" Adaptec SCSI RAID
controllers for which there is usually OpenBSD support.

Every so often Dell will change the specs on their products without
warning, that appears to be what's happened with the 400SC being
delivered with Promise controllers.

If it wasn't for corporate policy making it painfully difficult to
order anything other than Dell or Sun servers, this would be enough
to drive me to another rackmount server vendor.

Kevin

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