From: Per-Olov Sjöholm (posincedo.org)
Date: Tue Nov 02 2004 - 04:04:34 CST

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On Tuesday 02 November 2004 04.51, Kevin wrote:
> 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
>

What is "host raid" ?

Will the 3Ware 8006-2LP work on OpenBSD ? Do you know if they have may
different chips on these cards.

> > 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

Well the SCSI is not an option here. The server should be a home server that
should be quiet and have large redundant disks to a decent price.

/Per-Olov

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