From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jun 4 23:22:10 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4E109106564A for ; Mon, 4 Jun 2012 23:22:10 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from simon@optinet.com) Received: from cobra.acceleratedweb.net (cobra-gw.acceleratedweb.net [207.99.79.37]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id DCA208FC15 for ; Mon, 4 Jun 2012 23:22:09 +0000 (UTC) Received: (qmail 12146 invoked by uid 110); 4 Jun 2012 23:22:08 -0000 Received: from ool-4571afe7.dyn.optonline.net (HELO desktop1) (simon@optinet.com@69.113.175.231) by cobra.acceleratedweb.net with SMTP; 4 Jun 2012 23:22:08 -0000 From: "Simon" To: "kpneal@pobox.com" Date: Mon, 04 Jun 2012 19:21:53 -0400 Priority: Normal X-Mailer: PMMail 2000 Professional (2.20.2717) For Windows 2000 (5.1.2600;3) In-Reply-To: <20120604230335.GA41339@neutralgood.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20120604232210.4E109106564A@hub.freebsd.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Cc: "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" Subject: Re: FreeBSD 8.3 support for LSI SAS 2208 based controllers/Dell PERC 710 X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 04 Jun 2012 23:22:10 -0000 I'm glad to hear at least the Perc 6/i is working fine with R610 which is what I'm looking to get to avoid all the trouble with the new R620 Albeit I need to use the 1TB SAS drives that are 6gbps, so I really wanted to use the H700 instead of the much older Perc 6/i, which I also have working fine in a number of R710s When you get a chance, please find out what those other R610s are running and in what RAID config. I'm surprised so few on the list use Dell's Perc H700 Thanks, Simon On Mon, 4 Jun 2012 19:03:35 -0400, kpneal@pobox.com wrote: >On Mon, Jun 04, 2012 at 02:28:18PM -0400, Simon wrote: >> >> I'm wondering if this was resolved. I was looking at Dell R610s with Perc H700 >> and no solid information either. Found a few threads with people having issues >> with it, no solutions. These been out since early 2010, not cutting edge by any >> means. >> >> Is anyone using Dell R610/R620 with Perc H700/H710 reliably for some time? >I've got an R610 with the PERC 6/i (not what you asked) that runs like a >champ. I plan on upgrading the card at some point, but for now it works >fine. The trick was to turn off _all_ the power savings features (C1E, >etc) in the BIOS. >We have I don't even know how many R610 at work running FreeBSD 8.2 with >some kind of RAID card, but I don't know which one. Those machines get >pounded all day every day and I haven't heard of any problems. I haven't >noticed any as a user. I'll find out and report back. >I also have my R620 and the latest stable/8 has support for the H710 card >("Mini", "Monolithic"). It works well enough to create a couple of ZFS >pools and copy the install of FreeBSD over to the disks. But I have the >Broadcom 5720 network daughtercard that doesn't work yet, so I don't know >how the H710 performs under load. >Am I correct that LSI is contributing to the drivers for the Dell cards >that use LSI chips? Can someone verify that I'm not looney? >The R620 went on sale within days of Intel's release of the chips. To be >fair to FreeBSD the firmware that Dell shipped is ... half baked at best. >For a while it insisted on using the wrong IP when using DHCP, the network >upgrade of the firmware via FTP+proxy requests the wrong URL, etc etc. The >Dell DVD-ROM USB drive can't be connected at the same time as the "iDRAC" >network port or else the firmware won't initialize. And Dell had access >to the hardware before it shipped. So I can't complain about FreeBSD's >support for the R620 not being 100% in place when Dell hasn't gotten their >act together yet. >I'm told that support for the Broadcom card is being worked on. I do not >have a timeframe. >-- >Kevin P. Neal http://www.pobox.com/~kpn/ >Seen on bottom of IBM part number 1887724: >DO NOT EXPOSE MOUSE PAD TO DIRECT SUNLIGHT FOR EXTENDED PERIODS OF TIME. >_______________________________________________ >freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list >http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions >To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"