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Cc: Robert Arnesson <robert@robertarnesson.com>
Subject: Re: FreeBSD 8.x and Dell PERC H200?
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On Sunday, March 06, 2011 6:16:25 pm Robert Arnesson wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm attempting to install FreeBSD 8.2 on a spanking new Dell R410 server.
> The install fails during sysinstall on the disk partioning step with the 'no
> disks found'-error. After some googling the problem seems to be lack of
> support for the new Dell PERC H200 (and H700 and H800 as well?) raid
> controllers in FreeBSD. It makes sense, in our case the system detects the
> card and disks but the OS doesnt. However, the hardware notes for 8.2 states
> that Dell PERC is supported.

Older PERC controllers are supported by the mfi(4), mpt(4), and amr(4) 
drivers.

> I have tried installing 8.1, 8.2 and 9 without success.

Recent 9 and 8-stable after 8.2 have a new mps(4) driver that supports the 
H200.  However, I believe it only supports disks in JBOD mode currently.

-- 
John Baldwin