Date: Fri, 11 Jul 2008 01:21:38 +0200 From: Daniel Gerzo <danger@FreeBSD.org> To: Xin LI <delphij@delphij.net> Cc: d@delphij.net, freebsd-current@freebsd.org, Julio Gomez <gomez@telehouse.com> Subject: Re[2]: Dell's PERC6i Message-ID: <1574497.20080711012138@rulez.sk> In-Reply-To: <48767C38.8010206@delphij.net> References: <00db01c8e2cc$640edac0$2c2c9040$@com> <48767C38.8010206@delphij.net>
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Hello Xin,
Thursday, July 10, 2008, 11:16:40 PM, you wrote:
> I *think* that PERC 6/i would appear as "LSI MegaSAS 1078" rather than
> "Dell PERC 6/i" because of the following catch-all ID quirk:
> {0x1000, 0x0060, 0xffff, 0xffff, MFI_FLAGS_1078, "LSI MegaSAS 1078"},
> Later FreeBSD versions would identify it as "PERC 6":
> {0x1000, 0x0060, 0x1028, 0xffff, MFI_FLAGS_1078, "Dell PERC 6"},
> Therefore this should work just fine (out-of-the-box) on 7.0-R except it
> gave different names...
Correct, I suppose these will be handled by mfi(4) device driver. I
have some Dell SC1430s that have Dell PERC 5i controllers.
One disadvantage of these is that there's no native monitoring tool
for mfi(4) based devices. There's only a linux utility which I haven't
tried so far. However, it seems like porting might be easy and bz@ has
idicated some interest in this work. He unfortunately seems to be busy
these days ;-(
--
Best regards,
Daniel mailto:danger@FreeBSD.org
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