On 6/2/05, Mark Pickell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am curious if anyone has had any luck with either Dell or HP rackmount > servers running OpenBSD 3.6 or 3.7 with SATA drives? (or others if you've > had success)
I have had no luck with the embedded SATA controller in rackmount Dell products; it comes up in PIO mode (no DMA), crippling performance. As Dell provides two PCI slits in even their 1U boxes, I added a standalone PCI SATA controller, carefully re-routed the SATA data cables, and all was well. Other than the SATA controller, no other compatibility issues with the PE750 or PE1750, and I'm about to pick up a few new PE1850s based on endorsements from other misc@ readers. I'm not sure how much help this is to your question, can you give more detail on the "custom raid solution"? Kevin Kadow
