From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Oct 26 17:44:07 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 629C516A4CE for ; Tue, 26 Oct 2004 17:44:07 +0000 (GMT) Received: from apollo.orakel.ntnu.no (apollo.orakel.ntnu.no [129.241.186.245]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 41E6843D45 for ; Tue, 26 Oct 2004 17:44:06 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from oyvinht@orakel.ntnu.no) Received: (qmail 18246 invoked by uid 1019); 26 Oct 2004 17:44:02 -0000 Date: Tue, 26 Oct 2004 19:44:02 +0200 From: =?iso-8859-1?Q?=D8yvin?= Halfdan Thuv To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20041026174402.GB17680@orakel.ntnu.no> References: <20041025162952.GA1974@Delorien> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: <20041025162952.GA1974@Delorien> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.28i X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.0.0 (2004-09-13) on apollo.orakel.ntnu.no X-Spam-Status: No, score=-3.6 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,AWL autolearn=disabled version=3.0.0 X-Spam-Level: Subject: Re: Dell CERC SATA RAID controller X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: oyvinht@orakel.ntnu.no List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 26 Oct 2004 17:44:07 -0000 > hi all > > A client is buying some Dell Power Edge 700 servers. > Looking at the caratteristics of the producer, > it has a CERC SATA RAID 6 channel. > > From the Freebsd compatibility list i can see > that the driver i could use is aac(4) for > CERC SATA RAID 2 > > Can i use aac driver for the CERC SATA RAID 6 channel > controller? > > I must install Freebsd 4.10 and 5.3 Hi, no one seem to have answered this (at least not to the list). Therefore I thought that I at least could tell you that I set up a PE750 for a client some months ago. The server uses a CERC SATA RAID 2, and is working very well (fast & stable). I tested things like hotplugging and booting of a stripe and it worked as expected. The server is using 4.10 (5.2.1 didn't work with the card, 5.3 (very!)probably does). I really wouldn't run 5.x for production use anyway. I would persume that the aac driver would work for a 6 channel card as well, as the channels are abstracted away from the OS point-of-view. -- Regards, | An ideal world is left Øyvin Halfdan Thuv | as an excercise to the reader. | [Paul Graham, OnLisp 8.1]