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Date:      Sat, 24 Mar 2001 17:50:02 -0500 (EST)
From:      Rob Simmons <rsimmons@wlcg.com>
To:        Kevin Oberman <oberman@es.net>
Cc:        Ed Henderson <Ed.Henderson@Certainty.net>, <freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: Server MB suggestions? 
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.33.0103241749170.51554-100000@mail.wlcg.com>
In-Reply-To: <200103242211.f2OMB9c06348@ptavv.es.net>

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The PERC/DC is made by American Megatrends.  The PERC 2 and 3 are made by
Adaptec.

Robert Simmons
Systems Administrator
http://www.wlcg.com/

On Sat, 24 Mar 2001, Kevin Oberman wrote:

> > Date: Sat, 24 Mar 2001 15:11:00 -0500 (EST)
> > From: Rob Simmons <rsimmons@wlcg.com>
> > Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG
> >
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> > I've had no problems with Asus motherboards.  They are quite solid.  I'm
> > using the A7V with athlon processors for the most recent servers that I've
> > built.  Whereever I need RAID I've been using the Dell PERC/DC made by
> > American Megatrends.  It uses standard CL2 DIMM memory and is supported by
> > the amr driver.  As for a tape drive, I use the HP Surestore DDS3 6 tape
> > changer.  If you want something more reliable than DDS, which is probably
> > one of the more reliable helical scan tape drives, look into DLT drives.
> > They can get expensive, but they are much more reliable than DDS.
>
> This is twice I have seen messages claiming that the PERC is an AMI
> device. But the source code, LINT file and the message my PowerEdge
> prints at initialization claim that this is an Adaptec FSA
> controller. Mine certainly uses the aac driver.
>
> # Adaptec FSA RAID controllers, including integrated DELL controller,
> # the Dell PERC 2/QC and the HP NetRAID-4M
> #
> # AAC_COMPAT_LINUX      Include code to support Linux-binary management
> #                       utilities (requires Linux compatibility
> #                       support).
> #
> device          aac
>
> Or is the PERC/DC a totally different controller?
>
> R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer
> Energy Sciences Network (ESnet)
> Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab)
> E-mail: oberman@es.net			Phone: +1 510 486-8634
>
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