From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Sep 5 05:46:39 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 4092316A4DD; Tue, 5 Sep 2006 05:46:39 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from morten@atreides.freenix.no) Received: from freenix.no (atreides.freenix.no [212.33.142.6]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4DFB443D4C; Tue, 5 Sep 2006 05:46:37 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from morten@atreides.freenix.no) Received: from atreides.freenix.no (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by freenix.no (8.13.6/8.13.6) with ESMTP id k855iP9s040397; Tue, 5 Sep 2006 07:44:26 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from morten@atreides.freenix.no) Received: (from morten@localhost) by atreides.freenix.no (8.13.6/8.13.6/Submit) id k855iPWR040396; Tue, 5 Sep 2006 07:44:25 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from morten) Date: Tue, 5 Sep 2006 07:44:25 +0200 From: "Morten A. Middelthon" To: Alex Salazar Message-ID: <20060905054425.GH34840@freenix.no> References: <40c4bb930609020223h50c43537n1c8b32081ef5c1bf@mail.gmail.com> <20060904054721.GF34840@freenix.no> <20060904061139.GG34840@freenix.no> <40c4bb930609041234s6523944auc131dbc374525cf8@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="zgY/UHCnsaNnNXRx" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <40c4bb930609041234s6523944auc131dbc374525cf8@mail.gmail.com> X-PGP-Key: http://freenix.no/~morten/pgp.txt X-PGP-Key-FingerPrint: D48B 5C4E 1590 7DE6 08A0 6539 BECC F62E 829F DF6A X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 5.5-RELEASE-p1 X-Warning: So cunning you could brush your teeth with it. User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.11 X-Mailman-Approved-At: Tue, 05 Sep 2006 11:25:54 +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: Tue, 05 Sep 2006 05:46:39 -0000 --zgY/UHCnsaNnNXRx Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Mon, Sep 04, 2006 at 02:34:14PM -0500, Alex Salazar wrote: > 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 respon= se. > >> > > >> > I've just bought one of those new generation Dell servers,=20 > >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=20 > >embedded > >> > Broadcom NetXtreme II 5708 Gigabit Ethernet NIC. > >> > >> > >> Just wanted to say that I'm running FreeBSD/i386 6.1-STABLE on two Del= l=20 > >PE 1950's > >> without any problems. The only thing I had to do was update the bce=20 > >driver for > >> the NIC, but other than that the mfi RAID controller is detected=20 > >properly, as well > >> as the SAS disks and RAID array. The only difference I can think of is= =20 > >perhaps > >> the firmware and BIOS versions > >> >=20 > Hi, Morten. >=20 > According to your dmesg output, yours are Dell PERC 5/i adapters and doin= g=20 > RAID. > This configuration is well supported by mfi driver, AFAIK. >=20 > mfi0: mem 0xd80f0000-0xd80fffff,0xfc4e0000-0xfc4fffff > irq 78 at device 14.0 on pci2 >=20 >=20 > Mine is a LSI Logic SAS 5/i (no RAID) controller, which is supported > by the mpt driver, > wich seems to need some fixing. Ah, good point :) --=20 Morten A. Middelthon Time is an illusion; lunchtime, doubly so. -- Ford Prefect --zgY/UHCnsaNnNXRx Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.3 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFE/Q64vsz2LoKf32oRAgYrAJ9WE+70aVEz0GuzXo5WUnGIf9ShQQCeIfpi q1yTa4Zqkry8TCeRp7wa35Q= =OUuL -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --zgY/UHCnsaNnNXRx--