Hi! I am in the process of buying new Dell hardware, mainly the 2950 III. According to various postings I found, the PERC6/i Controller _should_ work with FreeBSD 6.3. Does anyone successfully use a 2950 III with PERC6/i controller and can confirm this? Sorry if the question sounds stupid, but as I cannot find any references to the PERC6 in either documentation or source code I am a bit confused, and I wanted to make sure it works before shelling out my employers money. :-) Many thanks for any enlightenment on this subject, kind regards, Ferdinand -- >> Ferdinand Goldmann >> Johannes Kepler University Linz - Server Systems/ZID >> Mail: Ferdinand.Goldmann@jku.at Phone: 00437024689398 Fax: 00437024689397
On 1/17/08, Ferdinand Goldmann <ferdinand.goldmann@jku.at> wrote:> Hi! > > I am in the process of buying new Dell hardware, mainly the 2950 III. > According to various postings I found, the PERC6/i Controller _should_ work > with FreeBSD 6.3. Does anyone successfully use a 2950 III with PERC6/i > controller and can confirm this? > > Sorry if the question sounds stupid, but as I cannot find any references to > the PERC6 in either documentation or source code I am a bit confused, and I > wanted to make sure it works before shelling out my employers money. :-) > > Many thanks for any enlightenment on this subject, > kind regards, > FerdinandDon't know if this is useful to you, but I'm using 7.0 on the same Dell platform, and hence on the same controller, with very good results. I think the mfi(4) manpage should be updated too :)> -- > >> Ferdinand Goldmann > >> Johannes Kepler University Linz - Server Systems/ZID > >> Mail: Ferdinand.Goldmann@jku.at Phone: 00437024689398 Fax: 00437024689397 > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list > lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >-- Mahnahmahnah!
On Thu, Jan 17, 2008 at 01:59:36PM +0100, Ferdinand Goldmann wrote:> I am in the process of buying new Dell hardware, mainly the 2950 III. > According to various postings I found, the PERC6/i Controller _should_ work > with FreeBSD 6.3. Does anyone successfully use a 2950 III with PERC6/i > controller and can confirm this?You'd be best off with RELENG_7 and not 6.3, but yes, the controller in question should work on RELENG_6 and RELENG_6_3.> Sorry if the question sounds stupid, but as I cannot find any references to > the PERC6 in either documentation or source code I am a bit confused, and I > wanted to make sure it works before shelling out my employers money. :-)There's been recent discussions on -stable about performance issues with mfi(4) under certain drive configuration conditions. Here's the thread: lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-stable/2007-December/038755.html lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-stable/2008-January/039568.html See specifically these two posts: lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-stable/2008-January/039574.html lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-stable/2008-January/039660.html -- | Jeremy Chadwick jdc at parodius.com | | Parodius Networking parodius.com | | UNIX Systems Administrator Mountain View, CA, USA | | Making life hard for others since 1977. PGP: 4BD6C0CB |
Ferdinand Goldmann wrote:> Hi! > > I am in the process of buying new Dell hardware, mainly the 2950 III. > According to various postings I found, the PERC6/i Controller _should_ > work with FreeBSD 6.3. Does anyone successfully use a 2950 III with > PERC6/i controller and can confirm this? > > Sorry if the question sounds stupid, but as I cannot find any references > to the PERC6 in either documentation or source code I am a bit confused, > and I wanted to make sure it works before shelling out my employers > money. :-) > > Many thanks for any enlightenment on this subject, > kind regards, > FerdinandHi, I have just pulled a new one out of a the box and done a boot and partition test on it using 6.3-RC2 boot only CD. Seemed to work just fine. I haven't got any PERC6/i's in production at this stage so can really say about their stability/performance just that they appear to work just fine with the 10 minute test I just did. Tom