From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jan 7 03:49:31 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5C62B16A4CE for ; Wed, 7 Jan 2004 03:49:31 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail06.svc.cra.dublin.eircom.net (mail06.svc.cra.dublin.eircom.net [159.134.118.22]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 2A2B643D46 for ; Wed, 7 Jan 2004 03:49:29 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from colm.ennis@eircom.net) Received: (qmail 7723 messnum 187013 invoked from network[159.134.250.230/colm.eng.eircom.net]); 7 Jan 2004 11:49:25 -0000 Received: from colm.eng.eircom.net (HELO colmwin2000) (159.134.250.230) by mail06.svc.cra.dublin.eircom.net (qp 7723) with SMTP; 7 Jan 2004 11:49:25 -0000 From: "colm ennis" To: Date: Wed, 7 Jan 2004 11:50:01 -0000 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 V6.00.2800.1106 Importance: Normal Subject: raid: dell perc 4/dc support & amr queries X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 07 Jan 2004 11:49:31 -0000 hi, i'm considering purchasing raid controllers bundled with some dell 1750's. the current raid controller's offered by dell with these devices are: perc 4/di perc 4/dc the perc 4/di seems to be an embedded megaraid device which is supported by the amr driver: http://www.freebsd.org/releases/4.9R/hardware-i386.html i found a mail to mlist.freebsd.scsi on google which states that the perc 4/dc is a megaraid 518 series and that its been supported since version 4.7. are both these raid controller's megaraid devices? are both supported in recent versions of freebsd? if so, why is the "perc 4/dc" not listed in the hardware list? also, with regard to amr devices: will all controller problems result in a syslog being generated? is there a management utility to perform rebuilds from the os etc.? btw do people have an opinion on the raid controller with best freebsd support(fully functional driver/mgmt utilities)? thanks for your help, colm ennis