From owner-freebsd-hardware Thu Dec 16 17:39:43 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from vinyl.sentex.ca (vinyl.sentex.ca [209.112.4.14]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 80B6B152EB for ; Thu, 16 Dec 1999 17:39:39 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mike@sentex.net) Received: from granite.sentex.net (granite-atm.sentex.ca [209.112.4.1]) by vinyl.sentex.ca (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id UAA49359; Thu, 16 Dec 1999 20:39:38 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from mike@sentex.net) Received: from ospf-mdt.sentex.net (ospf-mdt.sentex.net [205.211.164.81]) by granite.sentex.net (8.8.8/8.6.9) with SMTP id UAA02235; Thu, 16 Dec 1999 20:39:37 -0500 (EST) From: mike@sentex.net (Mike Tancsa) To: aaron@sonntag.org ("Aaron Sonntag") Cc: FreeBSD-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: SCSI RAID Controller support? Date: Fri, 17 Dec 1999 01:39:36 GMT Message-ID: <38599363.1815035172@mail.sentex.net> References: In-Reply-To: X-Mailer: Forte Agent .99e/32.227 Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On 16 Dec 1999 14:53:39 -0500, in sentex.lists.freebsd.hardware you wrote: >I am looking at getting my hands on a couple of Dell PowerEdge 4300 servers. >In both of these boxes I must spec a hardware RAID controller. I basically >have two choices. > >First is a multi-channel controller that has the Adaptec 7897 chipset. It >is a 4 channel controller. >http://support.dell.com/docs/storage/obsidian/specs.htm There is no RAID support for this controller that I know of. >The second is an American Megatrends based controller. It is only 1 >channel. >http://support.dell.com/docs/storage/perc2sc/specs.htm Perhaps. There is support for several of the MegaRAID cards. Have a look through the freebsd-current mailing list to see which ones are currently under development. I am using a 428, and it works quite well so far on STABLE. amrd0: rev 0x03 int a irq 5 on pci0.9.0 amr0: firmware UF80 bios 1.61 16MB memory amrd0: 2020MB (4136960 sectors) RAID 5 (optimal) You can get the drivers from www.freebsd.org/~msmith/RAID ---Mike Mike Tancsa (mdtancsa@sentex.net) Sentex Communications Corp, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada "Given enough time, 100 monkeys on 100 routers could setup a national IP network." (KDW2) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message