From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Sep 4 19:34:27 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C260016A513 for ; Mon, 4 Sep 2006 19:34:27 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from umbilical.blisters@gmail.com) Received: from py-out-1112.google.com (py-out-1112.google.com [64.233.166.183]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EF51343D53 for ; Mon, 4 Sep 2006 19:34:26 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from umbilical.blisters@gmail.com) Received: by py-out-1112.google.com with SMTP id o67so3036225pye for ; Mon, 04 Sep 2006 12:34:14 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=Nu0Eqo+tjdWTLtX+8uGZPshc2N4lVMpbHymeRSDUwlNFrOHd582S9fNWXeKo1JmDQD1NqDGxcnIzx3XMQhu3bf2atCS5kbQjwlYiTY/YWaPdNo4Awu3MRSqF2GYBgzQzmi8h0O9siOY7W+8msiGf2Llisk2uud3B6xQHrys/Ejc= Received: by 10.35.114.16 with SMTP id r16mr10794408pym; Mon, 04 Sep 2006 12:34:14 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.35.126.16 with HTTP; Mon, 4 Sep 2006 12:34:14 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <40c4bb930609041234s6523944auc131dbc374525cf8@mail.gmail.com> Date: Mon, 4 Sep 2006 14:34:14 -0500 From: "Alex Salazar" To: "Morten A. Middelthon" In-Reply-To: <20060904061139.GG34840@freenix.no> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <40c4bb930609020223h50c43537n1c8b32081ef5c1bf@mail.gmail.com> <20060904054721.GF34840@freenix.no> <20060904061139.GG34840@freenix.no> X-Mailman-Approved-At: Mon, 04 Sep 2006 20:12:02 +0000 Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Several issues on Dell 1950/2950 servers (6-STABLE and 7-CURRENT) X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 04 Sep 2006 19:34:27 -0000 On 9/4/06, Morten A. Middelthon wrote: > On Mon, Sep 04, 2006 at 07:47:21AM +0200, Morten A. Middelthon wrote: > > On Sat, Sep 02, 2006 at 04:23:21AM -0500, Alex Salazar wrote: > > > Apologies for the long message, and thanks in advance for any response. > > > > > > I've just bought one of those new generation Dell servers, specifically, > > > the PowerEdge 1950. > > > > > > This is a dual Intel Dual Core Xeon 5050, 3.0 GHz, 667MHz FSB, > > > 1GB 533MHz RAM, system. > > > > > > This server has a LSI Logic SAS 5/i integrated adapter and dual embedded > > > Broadcom NetXtreme II 5708 Gigabit Ethernet NIC. > > > > > > Just wanted to say that I'm running FreeBSD/i386 6.1-STABLE on two Dell PE 1950's > > without any problems. The only thing I had to do was update the bce driver for > > the NIC, but other than that the mfi RAID controller is detected properly, as well > > as the SAS disks and RAID array. The only difference I can think of is perhaps > > the firmware and BIOS versions > > Hi, Morten. According to your dmesg output, yours are Dell PERC 5/i adapters and doing RAID. This configuration is well supported by mfi driver, AFAIK. mfi0: mem 0xd80f0000-0xd80fffff,0xfc4e0000-0xfc4fffff irq 78 at device 14.0 on pci2 Mine is a LSI Logic SAS 5/i (no RAID) controller, which is supported by the mpt driver, wich seems to need some fixing. mpt0: port 0xec00-0xecff mem 0xfc4fc000-0xfc4fffff,0xfc4e0000-0xfc4effff irq 64 at device 8.0 on pci2 -- Alex