Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2008 05:59:34 -0800 From: Jeremy Chadwick <koitsu@FreeBSD.org> To: Ferdinand Goldmann <ferdinand.goldmann@jku.at> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Dell PERC6? Message-ID: <20080117135934.GA3226@eos.sc1.parodius.com> In-Reply-To: <478F5138.6010708@jku.at> References: <478F5138.6010708@jku.at>
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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 |
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