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Date:      Sat, 24 Jun 2006 20:56:22 -0700
From:      Paul Saab <ps@freebsd.org>
To:        "Marc G. Fournier" <scrappy@hub.org>
Cc:        freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Dell PERC 5A controller ... supported?
Message-ID:  <449E0966.30900@freebsd.org>
In-Reply-To: <20060624231306.F1114@ganymede.hub.org>
References:  <20060624221654.P1114@ganymede.hub.org> <449DE602.9010408@freebsd.org> <20060624231306.F1114@ganymede.hub.org>

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Marc G. Fournier wrote:
> On Sat, 24 Jun 2006, Paul Saab wrote:
>
>> yes, but the mfi driver
>
> what is the mfi driver like?  one of the things that I like about our 
> HP servers, using the ciss driver, is being able to get a status on 
> the RAID:
>
> # camcontrol devlist
> <COMPAQ RAID 1  VOLUME OK>         at scbus0 target 0 lun 0 (da0,pass0)
>
You can use the megacli tool from www.lsil.com to manage and monitor the 
arrays.
> From the man page:
>
> BUGS
>      The driver does not support big-endian architectures at this time.
>
> big-endian == 64bit servers, I take it? :(
>
>
No. 64bit systems work just fine
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Endianness



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