From owner-freebsd-stable Tue Jan 23 10:32:14 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from isds.duke.edu (davinci.isds.duke.edu [152.3.22.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5A42837B401; Tue, 23 Jan 2001 10:31:56 -0800 (PST) Received: from feta.isds.duke.edu (feta.isds.duke.edu [152.3.22.76]) by isds.duke.edu (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id NAA13186; Tue, 23 Jan 2001 13:31:55 -0500 (EST) Received: (from sto@localhost) by feta.isds.duke.edu (8.11.1/8.11.1) id f0NIVtV60300; Tue, 23 Jan 2001 13:31:55 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from sto) Date: Tue, 23 Jan 2001 13:31:55 -0500 From: "Sean O'Connell" To: Mike Smith , FreeBSD stable Subject: Re: Dell PERC 3 support? Message-ID: <20010123133155.M59802@stat.Duke.EDU> Reply-To: "Sean O'Connell" Mail-Followup-To: Sean O'Connell , Mike Smith , FreeBSD stable References: <20010123092236.C84940@zaphon.llamas.net> <200101231842.f0NIgKS01023@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: <200101231842.f0NIgKS01023@mass.dis.org>; from msmith@FreeBSD.ORG on Tue, Jan 23, 2001 at 10:42:20AM -0800 X-Organization: Institute of Statistics and Decision Sciences Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Mike Smith stated: : > So if I was buying a Dell 2450, I can get the Perc 3/Si upgrade for it : > and use 4.2-STABLE? Or would I have to goto current? I had steared : > away from this due to messages I had seen in December regarding these : > controllers. And was instead looking at just getting an Adaptec 3200S : > instead. But if I can buy it all from Dell, life would be a lot easier. : : You should be able to run -stable on the 3/Si, yes, and I believe that : we've nailed down the stability issues now, so you should be fine. : : Obviously, if you have any problems, I'd like to know about them, but : from the reports I have to hand so far, things are finally looking pretty : good. Mike- Any idea why the sysinstall from today's -stable snapshot would not recognize that the aac and all of its containers (all seen in boot probe) were not installable? It claimed I had no disks available (the 3 containers all were labeled with FreeBSD -current .. if that makes a difference) S -- Sean O'Connell Email: sean@stat.Duke.EDU Institute of Statistics and Decision Sciences Phone: (919) 684-5419 Duke University Fax: (919) 684-8594 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message