From owner-freebsd-hardware Mon May 15 10: 6:12 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from mass.cdrom.com (adsl-63-202-176-114.dsl.snfc21.pacbell.net [63.202.176.114]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4EE7F37BB64 for ; Mon, 15 May 2000 10:05:59 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from msmith@mass.cdrom.com) Received: from mass.cdrom.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mass.cdrom.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id KAA12823; Mon, 15 May 2000 10:06:22 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from msmith@mass.cdrom.com) Message-Id: <200005151706.KAA12823@mass.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.1.1 10/15/1999 To: Mark Blackman Cc: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Re: PERC 3/Si support on Dell PowerEdge In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 15 May 2000 10:48:55 BST." <20000515094837.364AA45C1A@viking.sophos.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Mon, 15 May 2000 10:06:21 -0700 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > > Will anyone comment on FreeBSD support for the PERC 3/Si RAID > controller supplied with the Dell PowerEdge 2450. > (http://www.dell.com/html/us/compt/pedge/perc_si_dc.htm) It's an Adaptec design, and unless and until Adaptec release details on the programming interface support is not going to happen. Apart from the product name, and one of the chips involved, it bears no resemblance to the AMI-derived members of the PERC family. -- \\ Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day. \\ Mike Smith \\ Tell him he should learn how to fish himself, \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ and he'll hate you for a lifetime. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message