From owner-freebsd-isp Fri May 26 7:54:29 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from stargate.clickcom.com (stargate.clickcom.com [209.198.22.4]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3C83037B5CC; Fri, 26 May 2000 07:54:23 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jks@clickcom.com) Received: from fishbowl (dhcp-2.clt.clickcom.com [209.198.22.66]) by stargate.clickcom.com with SMTP (Microsoft Exchange Internet Mail Service Version 5.5.2650.21) id LV0X0NG9; Fri, 26 May 2000 10:51:13 -0400 From: "John Straiton" To: , Subject: RAID Controller + 4.0 Date: Fri, 26 May 2000 10:53:20 -0400 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2910.0) X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2314.1300 Importance: Normal Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org My assistant recently ordered a machine for our use here but failed to check the HCL for 4.0, and therefore ordered a 2400 series Dell Poweredge that uses the PERC 2/Si 64MB RAID controller. Now I've checked the mailing list archives and haven't been too happy with what I'm seeing. The only one with a smidgin of hope was: http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=156897+159028+/usr/local/www/db/ text/2000/freebsd-questions/20000123.freebsd-questions However it seems to lend to 4.0-current (which I would imagine JAN's version of is now RELEASE) as having support for it but I can assure you that unless it's something you have to enable specifically during install, it's not. I would just try the 3.0 solution provided there however the Dell comes without IDE or UWSCSI ports on it, either of which I would have a HD for, instead only having a 50pin scsi port on it for which I do not have a drive to test with. I would ask if anyone has had any success with any workaround, if not, if you had any suggestions on things I could *try* as a workaround. And of course, lastly, if anyone has a simple recommendation as to which card they would buy right now in lieu of the PERC we existingly have I would be in your debt. John Straiton ClickCom, Inc. jks@clickcom.com (704)365-9970x101 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message