From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jan 17 13:59:34 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E658316A41B for ; Thu, 17 Jan 2008 13:59:34 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jdc@parodius.com) Received: from mx01.sc1.parodius.com (mx01.sc1.parodius.com [72.20.106.3]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EB0A913C4CE for ; Thu, 17 Jan 2008 13:59:34 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jdc@parodius.com) Received: by mx01.sc1.parodius.com (Postfix, from userid 1000) id BF9E61CC091; Thu, 17 Jan 2008 05:59:34 -0800 (PST) Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2008 05:59:34 -0800 From: Jeremy Chadwick To: Ferdinand Goldmann Message-ID: <20080117135934.GA3226@eos.sc1.parodius.com> References: <478F5138.6010708@jku.at> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <478F5138.6010708@jku.at> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.16 (2007-06-09) Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Dell PERC6? X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2008 13:59:35 -0000 On Thu, Jan 17, 2008 at 01:59:36PM +0100, Ferdinand Goldmann wrote: > I am in the process of buying new Dell hardware, mainly the 2950 III. > According to various postings I found, the PERC6/i Controller _should_ work > with FreeBSD 6.3. Does anyone successfully use a 2950 III with PERC6/i > controller and can confirm this? You'd be best off with RELENG_7 and not 6.3, but yes, the controller in question should work on RELENG_6 and RELENG_6_3. > Sorry if the question sounds stupid, but as I cannot find any references to > the PERC6 in either documentation or source code I am a bit confused, and I > wanted to make sure it works before shelling out my employers money. :-) There's been recent discussions on -stable about performance issues with mfi(4) under certain drive configuration conditions. Here's the thread: http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-stable/2007-December/038755.html http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-stable/2008-January/039568.html See specifically these two posts: http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-stable/2008-January/039574.html http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-stable/2008-January/039660.html -- | Jeremy Chadwick jdc at parodius.com | | Parodius Networking http://www.parodius.com/ | | UNIX Systems Administrator Mountain View, CA, USA | | Making life hard for others since 1977. PGP: 4BD6C0CB |