Re: Known working (well) SCSI HW RAID card for OpenBSD 3.7

From: Bas Keur (bas.keur_at_dmrt.net)
Date: 05/28/05 

Date: Sat, 28 May 2005 02:20:18 +0200

> We therefore need to purchase replacement cards, however before we do, can
> someone please tell me if they have installed OpenBSD 3.7 successfully
> using
> any SCSI RAID controllers?
>
> If you have, please tell me

Yes

> - which one (make, model)?

Adaptec SCSI RAID 3210S
http://www.adaptec.com/worldwide/support/suppdetail.jsp?sess=no&language=English+US&prodkey=ASR-3210S

[viper@allevil viper]$ dmesg | egrep -i 'adaptec|raid'
iop0 at pci1 dev 2 function 1 "DPT SmartRAID (I2O)" rev 0x01: I2O adapter
<ADAPTEC 3210S>
ioprbs1 at iop0 tid 520: <ADAPTEC, RAID-1, 370F> direct access, fixed
[viper@allevil viper]$ uname -msrv
OpenBSD 3.3 DMRT#2 i386

> - for how long?

A day or 2 after the release of OpenBSD 3.2 wich was May 1, 2003
(Yes the 3.7 upgrade is planned very soon now :)

> - environment (commercial, private, development)

While it's our (as in friends) own hardware hosted in a 100mbit datacenter.
Holding mail for about 50 power-users (approx -+10gb mail total)
Hosting about 15 websites with about 500mb of mysql backend, doing
imap,imaps,smtp,pop3,spop3,vpn,ldap,pf,spamassasian,amavis,clamd,http,
httpds etcetc. and it never ever failed us once.

> - thoughts (highly recommend, happy, content, frustrated, won't used
> again)

What i'll never (try to) use again are Dell deliverd PERC 3 controllers,
i have cursed those controllers in every manner. While Perc 3 should be
supported, the dell boxes had some kind of modified roms in them.
(Last time i checked was on 3.4 i guess)

> This new controller will become our new standard SCSI RAID controller, so
> any bad experiences with bindows will also be noted too.

Avoid all Prommise sata raid's like the pleague if you love your data.
Rebuilding mirror...... [freeze] / [reboot] [id0-dead] [id-1-dead]
*** happens. But it should not happen 1 out of 5 times.

> Many thanks

Cheers.