From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Oct 6 1:37: 3 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mass.osd.bsdi.com (adsl-63-202-176-106.dsl.snfc21.pacbell.net [63.202.176.106]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 87E0137B502 for ; Fri, 6 Oct 2000 01:37:00 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mass.osd.bsdi.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mass.osd.bsdi.com (8.11.0/8.9.3) with ESMTP id e968cbh04977; Fri, 6 Oct 2000 01:38:38 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from msmith@mass.osd.bsdi.com) Message-Id: <200010060838.e968cbh04977@mass.osd.bsdi.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.1.1 10/15/1999 To: Danny Braniss Cc: bsdi-users@mailinglists.org, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Adaptec AIC 7899 SCSI In-reply-to: Your message of "Fri, 06 Oct 2000 10:14:33 +0200." Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Fri, 06 Oct 2000 01:38:37 -0700 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > hi all, > somebody dropped a Dell PowerEdge 2450 rackmount server on my lap :-) > it has Dell Perc 3/si controller, which seems to be another name for > Adaptec AIC-7899. No. The 3/Si involves the i960 and the DIMM slot as well. If you have the RAID key in the system (little dongle, plugs over on the righthand side, check the diagram inside the system lid), you will need the 'aac' driver from -current or http://people.freebsd.org/~msmith/RAID/index.html#adaptec If there's no RAID key in the system, then you have a standard aic7899. If there's a RAID key but no DIMM, then you will probably confuse the hell out of things. Note that you need to set the controller up before you can do anything with it. > anyway, > NT: ok > FreeBSD: 4.1.1 does not see it > BSDi: 4.1 does see the controller but does not find any disks I'd be interested to know what BSD/OS thinks it's seeing. I don't believe they support this controller. > Linux: not yet tested. You will need the percraid driver as shipped by Dell, or the aacraid driver as shipping with RedHat 7.0 -- ... every activity meets with opposition, everyone who acts has his rivals and unfortunately opponents also. But not because people want to be opponents, rather because the tasks and relationships force people to take different points of view. [Dr. Fritz Todt] V I C T O R Y N O T V E N G E A N C E To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message