Date: Tue, 20 Jul 2004 15:54:52 -0600 From: Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org> To: hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Dell PERC RAID controller Message-ID: <6.1.1.1.2.20040720145450.0604eb18@localhost>
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Dell has recently announced that the firmware in some of its PERC RAID controllers is faulty and should be upgraded. I have a client who's running a FreeBSD system with one of these controllers. Unfortunately, Dell doesn't consider FreeBSD to be a "supported" operating system, and is offering CD-ROMs that install new firmware only for Windows or Red Hat Linux. It is unclear how they expect one to upgrade under a different OS. What do folks here know about the problems (which Dell didn't describe in detail)? Is the new firmware compatible with FreeBSD's drivers? How can one update the firmware from FreeBSD (run their Linux update under Linux emulation, perhaps)? One of the problems I'm facing, while researching this, is that Dell uses the name "PERC" for controllers that are actually made by at least two third party manufacturers. The messages that this one generates at boot time are: amr0: <AMI MegaRAID> mem 0xfeb00000-0xfeb0ffff irq 7 at device 4.0 on pci0 amr0: <PERC 3/SC> Firmware 1.72, BIOS 3.27, 32MB RAM ... amrd0: <MegaRAID logical drive> on amr0 amrd0: 51834MB (106156032 sectors) RAID 5 (optimal) Any help in upgrading the faulty firmware would be MUCH appreciated. I don't subscribe to this list full-time, so please copy my address on followups. --Brett Glass
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