From owner-freebsd-stable Tue Jan 23 10:14:15 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from fw.wintelcom.net (ns1.wintelcom.net [209.1.153.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C426437B6A2; Tue, 23 Jan 2001 10:13:54 -0800 (PST) Received: (from bright@localhost) by fw.wintelcom.net (8.10.0/8.10.0) id f0NIDr003211; Tue, 23 Jan 2001 10:13:53 -0800 (PST) Date: Tue, 23 Jan 2001 10:13:53 -0800 From: Alfred Perlstein To: Mike Smith Cc: Danny Braniss , stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Dell PERC 3 support? Message-ID: <20010123101353.P26076@fw.wintelcom.net> References: <200101231818.f0NIIGS00820@mass.dis.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <200101231818.f0NIIGS00820@mass.dis.org>; from msmith@freebsd.org on Tue, Jan 23, 2001 at 10:18:16AM -0800 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG * Mike Smith [010123 10:02] wrote: > > In message <20010123012109.O26076@fw.wintelcom.net>you write: > > }A friend just asked me if we support the PERC 3 cards shipped in > > }Dell servers. If not, anyone have a recommendation for a controller > > }in the same price performance category that is supported? > > > > if it's a Dell p-somthing 2450, then there is support, > > http://people.freebsd.org/~msmith/RAID > > > > i couldn't boot from the raid, and only tested raid0 (only had 2 disks) > > and the speeds were very nice. > > > > btw, if you figure out how to make it bootable, i would like to know. > > All of the RAID adapters we support are bootable. The #1 cause of > booting problems is a geometry mismatch. The integrated RAID controller > in the 2450 is supported by 'aac', which has three geometry options: > > '2GB' mode: */255/63 > '1GB' mode: */128/32 > standard: */64/32 > > The driver picks this setting up from the controller; if there is already > data on the disks, sysinstall may be confused into using a different > geometry. Someone complained that sysinstall wasn't aware of the cards, and therefore couldn't install on it. Sort of like the mess I had with amr(4), do you remeber MFC'ing sysinstall support for installing onto the PERC3? thanks, -- -Alfred Perlstein - [bright@wintelcom.net|alfred@freebsd.org] "I have the heart of a child; I keep it in a jar on my desk." To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message