We just got a few of those at work, unfortunately they are now Windows servers. The CERC RAID card is an Adaptec and not supported. Here is a dmesg booted from the on board sata.
OpenBSD 3.9-beta (GENERIC.MP) #578: Mon Jan 30 12:24:35 MST 2006 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/src/sys/arch/i386/compile/GENERIC.MP cpu0: Intel(R) Xeon(TM) CPU 3.00GHz ("GenuineIntel" 686-class) 3 GHz cpu0: FPU,V86,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,APIC,SEP,MTRR,PGE,MCA,CMOV,PAT,PSE36, CFLUSH,ACPI,MMX,FXSR,SSE,SSE2,SS,HTT,TM,SBF,SSE3,MWAIT,CNXT-ID real mem = 3621941248 (3537052K) avail mem = 3298295808 (3220992K) using 4278 buffers containing 181198848 bytes (176952K) of memory mainbus0 (root) bios0 at mainbus0: AT/286+(00) BIOS, date 08/18/05, BIOS32 rev. 0 @ 0xffe90 apm0 at bios0: Power Management spec V1.2 apm0: AC on, battery charge unknown apm0: flags 30102 dobusy 0 doidle 1 pcibios0 at bios0: rev 2.1 @ 0xf0000/0x10000 pcibios0: PCI IRQ Routing Table rev 1.0 @ 0xfeb00/256 (14 entries) pcibios0: PCI Interrupt Router at 000:31:0 ("Intel 82801EB/ER LPC" rev 0x00) pcibios0: PCI bus #6 is the last bus bios0: ROM list: 0xc0000/0x8000 0xc8000/0x4000 0xcc000/0x1800! 0xcd800/0x2800 mainbus0: Intel MP Specification (Version 1.4) (DELL PE SC1420 ) cpu0 at mainbus0: apid 0 (boot processor) cpu0: apic clock running at 199 MHz cpu1 at mainbus0: apid 6 (application processor) cpu1: Intel(R) Xeon(TM) CPU 3.00GHz ("GenuineIntel" 686-class) 3 GHz cpu1: FPU,V86,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,APIC,SEP,MTRR,PGE,MCA,CMOV,PAT,PSE36, CFLUSH,ACPI,MMX,FXSR,SSE,SSE2,SS,HTT,TM,SBF,SSE3,MWAIT,CNXT-ID mainbus0: bus 0 is type PCI mainbus0: bus 1 is type PCI mainbus0: bus 2 is type PCI mainbus0: bus 3 is type PCI mainbus0: bus 4 is type PCI mainbus0: bus 5 is type PCI mainbus0: bus 6 is type PCI mainbus0: bus 7 is type ISA ioapic0 at mainbus0: apid 8 pa 0xfec00000, version 20, 24 pins ioapic0: misconfigured as apic 0, remapped to apic 8 ioapic1 at mainbus0: apid 9 pa 0xfec80000, version 20, 24 pins ioapic1: misconfigured as apic 0, remapped to apic 9 ioapic2 at mainbus0: apid 10 pa 0xfec80800, version 20, 24 pins ioapic2: misconfigured as apic 0, remapped to apic 10 pci0 at mainbus0 bus 0: configuration mode 1 (no bios) pchb0 at pci0 dev 0 function 0 "Intel E7520 MCH" rev 0x09 "Intel E7520 MCH ERR" rev 0x09 at pci0 dev 0 function 1 not configured ppb0 at pci0 dev 2 function 0 "Intel MCH PCIE" rev 0x09 pci1 at ppb0 bus 1 ppb1 at pci1 dev 0 function 0 "Intel PCIE-PCIE" rev 0x00 pci2 at ppb1 bus 2 vga1 at pci2 dev 12 function 0 "ATI Mach64 GO" rev 0x27 wsdisplay0 at vga1 mux 1: console (80x25, vt100 emulation) wsdisplay0: screen 1-5 added (80x25, vt100 emulation) ppb2 at pci1 dev 0 function 2 "Intel PCIE-PCIE" rev 0x00 pci3 at ppb2 bus 3 "Adaptec ASR-2200S" rev 0x01 at pci3 dev 12 function 0 not configured em0 at pci3 dev 14 function 0 "Intel PRO/1000MT (82545GM)" rev 0x04: apic 10 int 0 (irq 11), address 00:14:22:49:5f:2b ppb3 at pci0 dev 3 function 0 "Intel MCH PCIE" rev 0x09 pci4 at ppb3 bus 4 ppb4 at pci0 dev 4 function 0 "Intel MCH PCIE" rev 0x09 pci5 at ppb4 bus 5 uhci0 at pci0 dev 29 function 0 "Intel 82801EB/ER USB" rev 0x02: apic 8 int 16 (irq 11) usb0 at uhci0: USB revision 1.0 uhub0 at usb0 uhub0: Intel UHCI root hub, rev 1.00/1.00, addr 1 uhub0: 2 ports with 2 removable, self powered uhci1 at pci0 dev 29 function 1 "Intel 82801EB/ER USB" rev 0x02: apic 8 int 19 (irq 10) usb1 at uhci1: USB revision 1.0 uhub1 at usb1 uhub1: Intel UHCI root hub, rev 1.00/1.00, addr 1 uhub1: 2 ports with 2 removable, self powered uhci2 at pci0 dev 29 function 2 "Intel 82801EB/ER USB" rev 0x02: apic 8 int 18 (irq 9) usb2 at uhci2: USB revision 1.0 uhub2 at usb2 uhub2: Intel UHCI root hub, rev 1.00/1.00, addr 1 uhub2: 2 ports with 2 removable, self powered uhci3 at pci0 dev 29 function 3 "Intel 82801EB/ER USB" rev 0x02: apic 8 int 16 (irq 11) usb3 at uhci3: USB revision 1.0 uhub3 at usb3 uhub3: Intel UHCI root hub, rev 1.00/1.00, addr 1 uhub3: 2 ports with 2 removable, self powered ehci0 at pci0 dev 29 function 7 "Intel 82801EB/ER USB2" rev 0x02: apic 8 int 23 (irq 5) usb4 at ehci0: USB revision 2.0 uhub4 at usb4 uhub4: Intel EHCI root hub, rev 2.00/1.00, addr 1 uhub4: 8 ports with 8 removable, self powered ppb5 at pci0 dev 30 function 0 "Intel 82801BA AGP" rev 0xc2 pci6 at ppb5 bus 6 ichpcib0 at pci0 dev 31 function 0 "Intel 82801EB/ER LPC" rev 0x02 pciide0 at pci0 dev 31 function 1 "Intel 82801EB/ER IDE" rev 0x02: DMA, channel 0 configured to compatibility, channel 1 configured to compatibility pciide0: channel 0 ignored (disabled) atapiscsi0 at pciide0 channel 1 drive 0 scsibus0 at atapiscsi0: 2 targets cd0 at scsibus0 targ 0 lun 0: <HL-DT-ST, DVD-ROM GDR8164B, 0D08> SCSI0 5/cdrom removable cd0(pciide0:1:0): using PIO mode 4, Ultra-DMA mode 2 pciide1 at pci0 dev 31 function 2 "Intel 82801EB SATA" rev 0x02: DMA, channel 0 configured to native-PCI, channel 1 configured to native-PCI pciide1: using apic 8 int 18 (irq 9) for native-PCI interrupt wd0 at pciide1 channel 0 drive 0: <Maxtor 6L160M0> wd0: 16-sector PIO, LBA48, 152587MB, 312500000 sectors wd0(pciide1:0:0): using PIO mode 4, Ultra-DMA mode 5 ichiic0 at pci0 dev 31 function 3 "Intel 82801EB/ER SMBus" rev 0x02: apic 8 int 17 (irq 10) iic0 at ichiic0 iic0: addr 0x2e 00=00 01=00 02=00 03=00 04=00 05=00 06=00 07=00 08=00 09=00 0a=00 0b=00 0c=00 0d=00 0e=00 0f=00 10=00 11=00 12=00 13=00 14=00 15=00 16=00 17=00 18=00 19=00 1a=00 1b=00 1c=00 1d=00 1e=00 1f=00 20=8c 21=ac 22=c3 23=c3 24=c1 25=ae 26=31 27=2a 28=00 29=00 2a=29 2b=26 2c=91 2d=08 2e=6c 2f=08 30=be 31=08 36=6a 37=6a 38=88 39=00 3a=00 3b=00 3c=00 3d=00 3e=5c 3f=b1 40=05 41=00 42=00 43=00 44=00 45=00 46=00 47=fc 48=1e 49=0c 4a=7e 4b=98 4c=64 4d=da 4e=b3 4f=cd 50=b3 51=cd 52=b3 53=cd 54=64 55=da 56=81 57=58 58=81 59=58 5a=81 5b=3c 5c=81 5d=37 5e=81 5f=4b 60=81 61=3c 62=50 63=46 64=50 65=46 66=78 67=69 68=f0 69=d2 6a=f0 6b=d2 6c=0e 6d=3f 6e=00 70=00 72=00 74=00 76=00 78=00 7a=fd 7b=1e 7c=0c 7d=00 7e=00 7f=00 80=c9 81=a9 82=a9 83=99 84=90 85=cc 87=f9 88=e0 89=80 8a=60 8b=60 8c=80 8d=00 8e=00 8f=00 90=40 91=40 92=2f 93=2f 94=2f 95=25 96=7f 97=7f 98=7f 99=7f 9a=7f 9b=7f 9c=22 9d=02 9e=00 9f=a4 a0=28 a1=6d a2=ed a3=00 a4=04 a5=04 a6=04 a7=04 a8=2f a9=2f aa=2f ab=01 ac=1f ad=00 ae=5f af=5f b0=7f b1=7f b2=7f b3=32 b4=00 b5=00 b6=00 b7=c0 b8=00 b9=00 ba=00 bb=2f bc=00 bd=10 be=00 bf=00 c0=00 c1=80 c2=40 c3=00 c4=7f c5=7f c6=7f c7=7f c8=7f c9=7f ca=00 cb=00 cc=00 cd=00 ce=00 cf=00 d0=00 e0=00 e1=60 e2=20 e3=00 e4=c8 e5=00 e6=a0 e7=00 e8=1c e9=00 ea=00 eb=00 ec=00 ed=00 ee=00 ef=00 f0=00 f1=00 f2=00 f3=00 f4=00 f5=00 f6=00 f7=00 f8=00 f9=00 fa=00 fb=00 fc=00 fd=00 fe=00 ff=00 isa0 at ichpcib0 isadma0 at isa0 pckbc0 at isa0 port 0x60/5 pckbd0 at pckbc0 (kbd slot) pckbc0: using irq 1 for kbd slot wskbd0 at pckbd0: console keyboard, using wsdisplay0 pmsi0 at pckbc0 (aux slot) pckbc0: using irq 12 for aux slot wsmouse0 at pmsi0 mux 0 pcppi0 at isa0 port 0x61 midi0 at pcppi0: <PC speaker> spkr0 at pcppi0 sysbeep0 at pcppi0 lpt0 at isa0 port 0x378/4 irq 7 npx0 at isa0 port 0xf0/16: using exception 16 pccom0 at isa0 port 0x3f8/8 irq 4: ns16550a, 16 byte fifo pccom1 at isa0 port 0x2f8/8 irq 3: ns16550a, 16 byte fifo fdc0 at isa0 port 0x3f0/6 irq 6 drq 2 fd0 at fdc0 drive 0: 1.44MB 80 cyl, 2 head, 18 sec biomask 0 netmask 0 ttymask 0 pctr: user-level cycle counter enabled apm0: disconnected dkcsum: wd0 matches BIOS drive 0x80 root on wd0a rootdev=0x0 rrootdev=0x300 rawdev=0x302 > -----Original Message----- > From: Gaby vanhegan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, February 14, 2006 3:09 PM > To: OpenBSD general usage list > Subject: New dell server > > Hi, > > I'm considering getting a Dell PowerEdge SC1420 SATA. We > need a small, cheap server for hosting some websites and > email. A dual > PIII-733 generic server isn't cutting the mustard any more so > it looks like it's time to spend money. > > Has anybody managed to get the CERC SATA raid controller running on > 3.8 or 3.9-stable? Alternatively, where's the cheapest > source of LSI SATA cards? Can I boot from a system installed > on an LSI card? > > Gaby > > -- > Junkets for bunterish lickspittles since 1998! > http://vanhegan.net/sudoku/ > http://weblog.vanhegan.net/