Date: Fri, 01 Dec 2006 13:44:05 -0600 From: Paul Schmehl <pauls@utdallas.edu> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Dell PERC5/e RAID controller in 2950 Message-ID: <C930BD33874E6233F105811C@utd59514.utdallas.edu> In-Reply-To: <1164987811.30801.29.camel@picard.scorec.rpi.edu> References: <1164987811.30801.29.camel@picard.scorec.rpi.edu>
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--On Friday, December 01, 2006 10:43:31 -0500 Adam Todorski <todora@scorec.rpi.edu> wrote: > Hello > > I see that this topic was discussed back in October but my specific > question was not answered in that exchange. My question is: > > 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? How well does it work with FreeBSD? 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. > I'm using the mfi driver for Dell's PERC5/i SAS RAID controller on a 1950, and it works fine. I do not know if it will support the PERC5/e controller, but you could email the driver author and ask him specifically. (His email address is in the man page.) There has been *some* discussions on this list about those controllers, but I don't know of anyone who has definitively stated that the mfi driver works for PERC5/e. Paul Schmehl (pauls@utdallas.edu) Senior Information Security Analyst The University of Texas at Dallas http://www.utdallas.edu/ir/security/help
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