Date: Tue, 05 Dec 2006 14:42:32 -0500 From: Adam Todorski <todora@scorec.rpi.edu> To: Alex Zbyslaw <xfb52@dial.pipex.com> Cc: freebsd-hardware <freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Dell 1900 and SATA Message-ID: <1165347752.15302.21.camel@picard.scorec.rpi.edu> In-Reply-To: <4575AF9B.50507@dial.pipex.com> References: <4575AF9B.50507@dial.pipex.com>
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Alex If you give me a week I will have a Dell with the SAS5iR on it here which I could test installing FreeBSD on before I put it into production. Adam On Tue, 2006-12-05 at 17:42 +0000, Alex Zbyslaw wrote: > Does anyone know what the standard SATA controller is on on a Dell 1900 > and if it is supported by FreeBSD? Browsing the Dell website has left > me goggle eyed and none the wiser :-( > > What about the SAS 5/iR? Is that the same as the Dell PERC5/i listed > under the mfi driver or is there some other driver which supports it? > And does it really support SATA as well as SAS disks as the Dell website > implies? > > Are there any other show stopping issues with these machines? (I know > that the ethernet driver had some issues - resolved in 6.2? - and that > the DRAC5 probably doesn't work well). > > All information gratefully received. > > --Alex > > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hardware > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-hardware-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > -- Adam Todorski Sr System Administrator Scientific Computation Research Center Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Troy, NY USA Office: (518) 276-8376 Fax: (518) 276-4886
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