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From: Doug Ambrisko <ambrisko@ambrisko.com>
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To: Vlad GALU <dudu@dudu.ro>
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Cc: ferdinand.goldmann@jku.at, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: Dell PERC6?
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Vlad GALU writes:
| On 1/17/08, Ferdinand Goldmann <ferdinand.goldmann@jku.at> wrote:
| > Hi!
| >
| > 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?
| >
| > 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. :-)
| >
| > Many thanks for any enlightenment on this subject,
| > kind regards,
| > Ferdinand
|
|    Don't know if this is useful to you, but I'm using 7.0 on the same
| Dell platform, and hence on the same controller, with very good
| results. I think the mfi(4) manpage should be updated too :)

It's been updated in -current.  Yes, PERC6 support is in 6.3 & 7.0.

Thanks for the prompt,

Doug A.