Hi, I'm planning to set up a system as described below, but I want to hear if anyone else on this list has had any experience with a similar setup before I put it into production use. It is a Dell PE750 with: - Celeron 2,4 GHz/128 kB - 512 MB ECC DDR (400 MHz) RAM - 2 x 120 GB SATA HD (I plan to mirror) - CERC SATA RAID Controller (6 channel) - C04 STAR1, Add-in CERC SATA RAID cntlr RAID 1 - Adaptec SCSI 39160 controller The SCSI controller is for a PV100T DAT72 external backup tape drive. I plan to run the following services: - firewalling (for this computer and a win-box behind it) - mail (qmail, possisble multidomain) - SQL database (for mail accounts) - samba fileserver (for a windows box that servers webpages (asp-stuff)) - dns (tinydns, just a few domains, zone-transfer to secondary provided by ISP) - backup service to DAT tape (amanda?) - some monitoring (like mrtg and stuff) I need uptime (no backup mail-server here..), so it should be possible to hot- swap the SATA disks (I have only SCSI experience, never tried SATA before). I would like advice wheter to select 4.10 or 5.2.1 (is acpi working well on this one?). Any experience is also greatly appreciated, I'm also open for reccomendations on software/hardware adjustments). -- ?yvin
> Hi, > I'm planning to set up a system as described below, but I want to hear if anyone > else on this list has had any experience with a similar setup before I put it > into production use. > > It is a Dell PE750 with:(snip)> - CERC SATA RAID Controller (6 channel)Though I have tested Dell PE750 with SATA RAID1(without SCSI) using FreeBSD 5.2.1-RELEASE-p8, the installer could not find the disk :-(. But Ushine Hiroyuki has reported he can boot with some patch derived from OpenBSD aac code. http://home.jp.freebsd.org/cgi-bin/showmail/FreeBSD-users-jp/79958 This page is written in Japanese, but you can see the patch. He said that he will send-pr if he can install with the patched kernel. p.s. I have also tried IBM xSeries 306 with SATA using FreeBSD 5.2.1-RELEASE-p8 and can boot with stock kernel. But when enabling RAID1, I could not boot, too :-(. ----- UEDA Hiroyuki <ueda@netforest.ad.jp> Net Forest Inc., JAPAN
UEDA Hiroyuki,> > It is a Dell PE750 with: > (snip) > > - CERC SATA RAID Controller (6 channel) > > Though I have tested Dell PE750 with SATA RAID1(without SCSI) using > FreeBSD 5.2.1-RELEASE-p8, the installer could not find the disk :-(. > > But Ushine Hiroyuki has reported he can boot with some patch derived > from OpenBSD aac code. > > http://home.jp.freebsd.org/cgi-bin/showmail/FreeBSD-users-jp/79958OK. This means I will probably bring with me a SCSI disk to fall back on. It would be nice if you could notice on this list if the patch works. If not, I will do so anyway, but maybe not before sometime in August... Thanks a lot anyway, this was relly interesting info. -- ?yvin