Hi,

I was wondering if the 3ware 8006-2LP is supported in 4.2.
The http://www.openbsd.org/i386.html page only lists 5x00, 6x00 and 7x00
as supported devices, but the man page says that 8000 is supported as well.

(just trying to find a cheap SATA hardware raid card...)

Thanks !
  Pawel.

[snip problems with the 3ware card]

Then what card would be suggested that will provide the necessary
support (as outlined) for SATA drives?  Assuming that there will be a
price range, what would that range look like?

Doug.

Try ebay for a used MegaRAID SATA 150-4 or Areca ARC-1x10...
new they're a bit more expensive than the cheap 3ware, but not
too bad.

If you don't need a lot of disk space, it will be easier to find
a used supported SCSI RAID controller, and this will probably cost
less.

Just out of curiousity why do you like those cards better than 3ware?
I use 3ware in all of my hardware raid servers and I have no problems
with it. I'm using 3ware 9550SX Sata RAID and it does do SMART
checking and what not. 3ware is my preferred brand of RAID
controllers.

- Jake

The majority of disks I've had problems with have not shown
SMART errors...

http://www.openbsd.org/papers/opencon06-docs/index.html

3ware doesn't believe in this, LSI does.

But don't believe us, go ahead and buy 3ware or Adaptec cards. Just
don't expect OpenBSD to work well with them.

Best
   Martin

Or PATA for that matter.

However, since I am only really interested in doing RAID1, really to
prevent a fatal disk crash
heavily impacting the runtime, I can as well use soft RAID.

If I use 'ccd', will I be able to mirror the root partition? Or simply
have only two disks (primary
and a mirror), have a really small root partition, and mount 'ccd'
devices from the fstab ?
Or can I mount root on a 'ccd' ? (don't see how)

Thanks,
  Pawel.