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Date: Tue, 19 Mar 2002 22:01:09 -0500 (EST)
From: Tim Kellers <timothyk@serv1.wallnet.com>
To: James Satterfield <james@floondoon.com>
Cc: Scott Long <scott_long@btc.adaptec.com>,
	Mike Hoskins <mike@adept.org>, <stable@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject: Re: Perc 3/Di & Stable
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Just to beat a dying horse...


PERC 3/Di are/were shipped with the Dell PowerEdge 2500 boxen (I use 3 at
work, 2 with FreeBSD) and, as of the July 21 SNAP release, the 3Di
controller is supported.  (in kernel it's the aac device)

Tim Kellers
CPE/NJIT

On Tue, 19 Mar 2002, James Satterfield wrote:

> 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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