From owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Dec 1 05:52:49 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 595B016A52E for ; Fri, 1 Dec 2006 05:52:49 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from chris@hitnet.RWTH-Aachen.DE) Received: from mta-2.ms.rz.rwth-aachen.de (mta-2.ms.rz.RWTH-Aachen.DE [134.130.7.73]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E324B43CA7 for ; Fri, 1 Dec 2006 05:52:35 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from chris@hitnet.RWTH-Aachen.DE) Received: from circe ([134.130.3.36]) by mta-2.ms.rz.RWTH-Aachen.de (Sun Java System Messaging Server 6.2-7.05 (built Sep 5 2006)) with ESMTP id <0J9K00K6TYZZWR20@mta-2.ms.rz.RWTH-Aachen.de> for freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org; Fri, 01 Dec 2006 06:52:47 +0100 (CET) Received: from talos.rz.RWTH-Aachen.DE ([134.130.3.22]) by circe (MailMonitor for SMTP v1.2.2 ) ; Fri, 01 Dec 2006 06:52:46 +0100 (MET) Received: from bigboss.hitnet.rwth-aachen.de (bigspace.hitnet.RWTH-Aachen.DE [137.226.181.2]) by smarthost.rwth-aachen.de (8.13.8/8.13.1/1) with ESMTP id kB15qkEb025248; Fri, 01 Dec 2006 06:52:46 +0100 Received: from haakonia.hitnet.rwth-aachen.de ([137.226.181.92]) by bigboss.hitnet.rwth-aachen.de with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA:32) (Exim 4.50) id 1Gq1KI-00008M-AT; Fri, 01 Dec 2006 06:52:46 +0100 Received: by haakonia.hitnet.rwth-aachen.de (Postfix, from userid 1001) id EEDB33F41B; Fri, 01 Dec 2006 06:52:44 +0100 (CET) Date: Fri, 01 Dec 2006 06:52:44 +0100 From: Christian Brueffer In-reply-to: <1164898256.9157.20.camel@picard.scorec.rpi.edu> To: Adam Todorski Message-id: <20061201055244.GB1923@haakonia.hitnet.RWTH-Aachen.DE> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary=V0207lvV8h4k8FAm Content-disposition: inline X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 6.2-PRERELEASE X-PGP-Key: http://people.FreeBSD.org/~brueffer/brueffer.key.asc X-PGP-Fingerprint: A5C8 2099 19FF AACA F41B B29B 6C76 178C A0ED 982D References: <1164898256.9157.20.camel@picard.scorec.rpi.edu> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.11 Cc: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Dell PERC5/e RAID controller X-BeenThere: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: General discussion of FreeBSD hardware List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 01 Dec 2006 05:52:49 -0000 --V0207lvV8h4k8FAm Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Thu, Nov 30, 2006 at 09:50:56AM -0500, Adam Todorski wrote: > Hello >=20 > I am considering a Dell 2950 with the PERC5/e SAS RAID controller > attached to their MD1000 SAS JBOD product and I would like to run 6.2- > RELEASE on it (when it comes out). Has anyone had any experience with > this hardware scenario with FreeBSD? Is the PERC5/e controller > supported? My research on this topic has not lead to a conclusion one > way or another, as the man page for the mfi(4) driver indicates that the > PARC5/i (the internal controller in the 2950 that I will have the OS > live on) is supported and that the LSI 8480E is supported (which I've > heard that the PERC5/e is based on) but not the PERC5/e explicitly. >=20 > Any insight would be much appreciated! >=20 I don't have an answer for you, but if you find out, please let us know so we can add this to the mfi(4) hardware section. - Christian --=20 Christian Brueffer chris@unixpages.org brueffer@FreeBSD.org GPG Key: http://people.freebsd.org/~brueffer/brueffer.key.asc GPG Fingerprint: A5C8 2099 19FF AACA F41B B29B 6C76 178C A0ED 982D --V0207lvV8h4k8FAm Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFFb8MsbHYXjKDtmC0RAqQzAKCQqhSggt5Tlcp2NbGTeACPq412bACfUhil AjbdtlOs9iXNg6CAXEkhEcY= =PN3U -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --V0207lvV8h4k8FAm--