Subject: Re: Dell PowerEdge with PERC 5/i
To: Martti Kuparinen <martti.kuparinen@iki.fi>
From: John R. Shannon <john@johnrshannon.com>
List: current-users
Date: 07/25/2006 06:09:23
Martti Kuparinen wrote:
> Daniel Lifschitz wrote:
>
>> I have a brand new Dell PowerEdge 1950 with a PERC 5/i controller. It
>> seems to not be supported by the actual arm driver. Is there any
>> release plan - or even better a patch - for supporting this new RAID
>> controller?
>
> Show the dmesg output (/kern/msgbuf or something similar when booting
> from the installation CD)...
>
> Martti
The PERC 5/i is a SAS controller. FreeBSD and OpenBSD support it with
the mfi driver:
http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=mfi&apropos=0&sektion=0&manpath=FreeBSD+6.1-RELEASE&format=html
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