From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Oct 5 05:43:59 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4D9DC16A412 for ; Thu, 5 Oct 2006 05:43:59 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from scottl@samsco.org) Received: from pooker.samsco.org (pooker.samsco.org [168.103.85.57]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 86B2F43D5C for ; Thu, 5 Oct 2006 05:43:58 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from scottl@samsco.org) Received: from [192.168.254.11] (phobos.samsco.home [192.168.254.11]) (authenticated bits=0) by pooker.samsco.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id k955gEnB088753; Wed, 4 Oct 2006 23:42:19 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from scottl@samsco.org) Message-ID: <45249B34.20901@samsco.org> Date: Wed, 04 Oct 2006 23:42:12 -0600 From: Scott Long User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X; en-US; rv:1.8.0.7) Gecko/20060910 SeaMonkey/1.0.5 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Doug Ambrisko References: <200610050459.k954xMEv073389@ambrisko.com> In-Reply-To: <200610050459.k954xMEv073389@ambrisko.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.4 required=3.8 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=failed version=3.1.1 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.1.1 (2006-03-10) on pooker.samsco.org Cc: Fredrik Widlund , freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 6.2-BETA2 Dell PE1950 X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 05 Oct 2006 05:43:59 -0000 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