From owner-freebsd-scsi Sun Sep 19 21:36: 3 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (castles524.castles.com [208.214.165.88]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1BB0215132 for ; Sun, 19 Sep 1999 21:36:00 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by dingo.cdrom.com (8.9.3/8.8.8) with ESMTP id VAA28580; Sun, 19 Sep 1999 21:28:50 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Message-Id: <199909200428.VAA28580@dingo.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: John Cc: freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Raid Drivers In-reply-to: Your message of "Sun, 19 Sep 1999 17:08:13 EDT." <4.1.19990919170554.009486c0@unix01.voicenet.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Sun, 19 Sep 1999 21:28:50 -0700 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Don't expect a driver for the Perc (really an AMI MegaRAID) anytime before the 4.0 release. There are a number of issues to deal with before we can even start looking at a driver. > I posted this question to freebsd-questions, and the answer left me hope, > but I was hoping to get more details. If I understand the mail archives > correctly, someone was planning on working for a driver for the Dell > Perc2/SC raid controller. Any update on that? The reason I'm asking is > that my boss is looking at installing 5 servers, and I'll be picking the > OS. I'd like to go with FreeBSD, but if the driver won't be out in the > next couple of months, I'll need to scramble to pick something different > (which I'd rather not do :) ) I'd suggest that if you *must* have hardware raid, get an external unit like an Infortrend. -- \\ The mind's the standard \\ Mike Smith \\ of the man. \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ -- Joseph Merrick \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-scsi" in the body of the message