From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jul 28 8: 8:30 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.enteract.com (mail.enteract.com [207.229.143.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 399C237B74A for ; Fri, 28 Jul 2000 08:08:24 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dschrock@enteract.com) Received: from chico (dhcp-103.internal.enteract.com [207.229.169.230]) by mail.enteract.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id KAA75284; Fri, 28 Jul 2000 10:08:19 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from dschrock@enteract.com) Message-ID: <012701bff8a6$2a96d1d0$e6a9e5cf@chico> From: "Daniel Schrock" To: "\"Kenneth Karoliussen\"" Cc: "freebsd-questions" References: <8lrpmp$1a76$1@FreeBSD.csie.NCTU.edu.tw> Subject: Re: Perc 2 RAID and Dell PowerEdge 6400 Date: Fri, 28 Jul 2000 10:11:54 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2314.1300 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2314.1300 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I installed FreeBSD-4.0-Stable (snap from 7/17) on a Poweredge 4400 with PERC 2s about a week or so ago, and it is now in a production environment with no problems whatsoever. It worked great and the system has been up and functioning well since. Prior attempts using 4.0-Release( failed during install) and then a clean install with an instant cvsup in single user mode(failed during make buildworld) failed miserably due to wedged controller errors. So far, it looks as though those problems have been fixed and the PERC 2 is now compatible. Only time will tell, but I'm pleased with the current result. The PERC2 is supported in 4.0-Stable and above. My only advice is to not attempt an install of anything older than 4.0-Stable. Not even selling your soul will make it work (I fought with it for 10 hours and the farthest I got was a make buildworld from a Release to Stable cvsup- it failed, fsck lost most of the sources, and I went home very torqued) Good luck Daniel Schrock d_jab@anonymous-daemon.org ----- Original Message ----- From: "Kenneth Karoliussen" Newsgroups: mailing.freebsd.questions Sent: Friday, July 28, 2000 6:10 AM Subject: Perc 2 RAID and Dell PowerEdge 6400 > This is a multi-part message in MIME format. > > ------=_NextPart_000_0B61_01BFF894.B16CF7A0 > Content-Type: text/plain; > charset="iso-8859-1" > Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable > > Hi, > > this is not actually related to your question, but I have one question = > of my own about > your choice of hardware for FreeBSD 4.1. > > We're about to purchase somewhat identical hardware equipment, and I = > wonder if you have=20 > planed to use the optional Perc 2 RAID controller? I'm not sure if this = > is natively supported > by the new 4.1 release. If not so, is the BETA driver (aac) supplied by = > Michael Smith=20 > (http://people.freebsd.org/~msmith/RAID/) tested in production = > environment? > > Any comments are greatly appreciated. > > Cheers, > > Kenneth > ----- Original Message -----=20 > From: T.S. TEH=20 > To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG=20 > Sent: Friday, July 28, 2000 10:30 AM > Subject: Backup Solution > > > Hai, > =20 > I'm from Malaysia and is currently working with my customer whose a = > e-commerce company. They are going to run the FreeBSD ver4.1 on 6 units = > Dell PowerEdge 6400 servers with Dual Intel Pentium III Xeon 500Mhz = > w/1MB cache processor. > =20 > I will very much appreciates if you could advise me who are the vendor = > that can provide me the backup drive and software that is compatible to = > FreeBSD ver4.1 and preferably to have local representative in Malaysia. > > Hope to hear from you soon. > > regards, > Teh > > > > ------=_NextPart_000_0B61_01BFF894.B16CF7A0 > Content-Type: text/html; > charset="iso-8859-1" > Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable > > > > http-equiv=3DContent-Type> > > > > >
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this is not actually related to your = > question, but=20 > I have one question of my own about
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by the new 4.1 release. If not = > so, is the=20 > BETA driver (aac) supplied by Michael Smith
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( href=3D"http://people.freebsd.org/~msmith/RAID/)">http://people.freebsd.o= > rg/~msmith/RAID/)=20 > tested in production environment?
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Any comments are greatly style=3D"FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: = > 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-fareast-language: = > EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA">appreciated.
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I'm = > from Malaysia=20 > and is currently working with my customer whose a e-commerce = > company.=20 > They are going to run the FreeBSD ver4.1 on 6 units Dell PowerEdge = > 6400=20 > servers with Dual Intel Pentium III Xeon 500Mhz w/1MB cache=20 > processor.
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I will very much appreciates if you = > could advise=20 > me who are the vendor that can provide me the backup drive and = > software that=20 > is compatible to FreeBSD ver4.1 and preferably to have local = > representative in=20 > Malaysia.
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Hope to hear from you = > soon.
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regards,
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Teh
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