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From: "James Satterfield" <james@floondoon.com>
To: "Scott Long" <scott_long@btc.adaptec.com>,
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Subject: Re: Perc 3/Di & Stable
Date: Tue, 19 Mar 2002 18:19:38 -0800
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The Perc 3/Di is the internal adaptec card. I've run FreeBSD on these many
times with no problems.
The Perc 3/DC and 3/QC are the AMI boards.
James.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Scott Long" <scott_long@btc.adaptec.com>
To: "Mike Hoskins" <mike@adept.org>
Cc: <stable@FreeBSD.ORG>
Sent: Tuesday, March 19, 2002 6:07 PM
Subject: Re: Perc 3/Di & Stable


> On Tue, 2002-03-19 at 18:39, Mike Hoskins wrote:
> >
> > Tried hitting msmith@freebsd.org, seemed to bounce...  Probably fubar
> > between here and there, or I missed something.
> >
> > Just wondering if anyone's running the new Perc 3/DI RAID controller
> > (relabled AMI) from Dell under stable.  I have a number of old Linux
boxes
> > with older 3/DC's and 3/SI's that are going to become more useful (I.e.
> > install FreeBSD), but for newer orders it looks like the 3/DI has become
> > the standard.  Looks like the only difference is battery-backed cache...
> > So even if it's not 'officially supported', would this be relatively
easy
> > to fix?  (I.e. - Can I just change a 'DC' to a 'DI' somewhere and not
get
> > bitten too badly?)
>
> I might be wrong, but I believe that the PERC3/Di is a relabled Adaptec
> RAID controller.  Is it built into the motherboard, or is it an add-in
> card?  If it's the former, then it's Adaptec and yes, it is well
> supported under FreeBSD.
>
> Scott
>
>
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