From owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Apr 14 04:15:23 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 12F1C16A4CE for ; Thu, 14 Apr 2005 04:15:23 +0000 (GMT) Received: from pop-a065b10.pas.sa.earthlink.net (pop-a065b10.pas.sa.earthlink.net [207.217.121.170]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CDF2F43D48 for ; Thu, 14 Apr 2005 04:15:22 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from kwsn@earthlink.net) Received: from dialup-4.240.105.73.dial1.phoenix1.level3.net ([4.240.105.73] helo=jonnyv.kwsn.lan) by pop-a065b10.pas.sa.earthlink.net with esmtp (Exim 3.36 #10) id 1DLvlB-0002b1-00 for freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org; Wed, 13 Apr 2005 21:15:22 -0700 From: Jon Kuster To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <20050402221816.GB772@zaphod.nitro.dk> References: <1112479124.51834.7.camel@jonnyv.kwsn.lan> <20050402221816.GB772@zaphod.nitro.dk> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Wed, 13 Apr 2005 21:15:20 -0700 Message-Id: <1113452120.35949.9.camel@jonnyv.kwsn.lan> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.2.2 FreeBSD GNOME Team Port Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: PERC4ei? X-BeenThere: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: kwsn@earthlink.net List-Id: General discussion of FreeBSD hardware List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 14 Apr 2005 04:15:23 -0000 On Sun, 2005-04-03 at 00:18 +0200, Simon L. Nielsen wrote: > On 2005.04.02 14:58:44 -0700, Jon Kuster wrote: > > > Is anyone successfully using the PERC4ei in a Dell PowerEdge 1850? I'm > > Yes, I have a PERC 4e/Si (AFAIR it's that controller) in a PowerEdge > 1850, though the system is currently running 6.0-CURRENT. > > > looking to purchase one, but I haven't been able to figure out if the > > PERC4ei is supported. The closest I've been able to find is some info > > for Linux that says it's based on an LSI megaraid (link below). So can > > anyone confirm that the 4ei is supported in 5.3 (or 5.4) or not? > > Dell PERC 4e/Di and Dell PERC 4e/Si are supported, at least in > 5-STABLE (i.e. in the upcomming 5.4), probably also in 5.3 (I can't > remember wrt. to 5.3, but I can test tomorrow if you are interested in > knowing). > > See also: > > http://www.FreeBSD.org/relnotes/5-STABLE/hardware/i386/support.html#DISK > So everyone who is interested knows, the PERC4ei is an amr(4) controller. The relevant bits from dmesg: amr0: mem 0xdfde0000-0xdfdfffff,0xd80f0000-0xd80fffff irq 46 at device 14.0 on pci2 amr0: Firmware 516A, BIOS H418, 256MB RAM amrd0: on amr0 amrd0: 69880MB (143114240 sectors) RAID 1 (optimal)