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Date:      Wed, 04 Oct 2006 23:42:12 -0600
From:      Scott Long <scottl@samsco.org>
To:        Doug Ambrisko <ambrisko@ambrisko.com>
Cc:        Fredrik Widlund <fredrik.widlund@qbrick.com>, freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: 6.2-BETA2 Dell PE1950
Message-ID:  <45249B34.20901@samsco.org>
In-Reply-To: <200610050459.k954xMEv073389@ambrisko.com>
References:  <200610050459.k954xMEv073389@ambrisko.com>

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Doug Ambrisko wrote:
> Fredrik Widlund writes:
> | An update, right now the BCE nic seems to work, I'm not sure exactly why
> | yet. I'm attaching the dmesg however.
> | 
> | SAS adapter is the PERC 5I, which is handled by the MPT driver in
> | 6.2-Beta2. I'll continue to look at this. There are some unhandled
> | events (0x12, 0x16), but these might not be needed.
> 
> You might be confused here.  PERC stands for "Power Edge RAID Controller"
> which is the LSI RAID card.  It is supported via the mfi driver.  The
> MPT driver supports the non-RAID SAS card.  Okay it can do some RAID
> but really isn't a RAID card like the real RAID card.  I do have a
> card that is the SAS controller but I haven't played with it much.
> I did play with it a little to figure out a different problem and
> now it sits on my desk.
> 
> Doug A.

The confusion is actually on Dell's end.  They've overloaded the 'PERC'
term to mean both software and hardware RAID.  You can build out a
1950 or 2950 with an MPT SAS card instead of an MFI SAS-RAID card, but
they will still tell you that you are getting 'PERC RAID'.  The power
of marketeers.  Anyways, I _think_ that the 'i' in 'PERC 5i' is the
indicator that it is software RAID, and thus just an MPT chip doing
its 'integrated mirror' feature.

Scott



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