Re: Several issues on Dell 1950/2950 servers (6-STABLE and 7-CURRENT)

On Mon, Sep 04, 2006 at 02:34:14PM -0500, Alex Salazar wrote:
> On 9/4/06, Morten A. Middelthon <morten_at_freenix.no> wrote:
> >On Mon, Sep 04, 2006 at 07:47:21AM +0200, Morten A. Middelthon wrote:
> >> On Sat, Sep 02, 2006 at 04:23:21AM -0500, Alex Salazar wrote:
> >> > Apologies for the long message, and thanks in advance for any response.
> >> >
> >> > I've just bought one of those new generation Dell servers, 
> >specifically,
> >> > the PowerEdge 1950.
> >> >
> >> > This is a dual Intel Dual Core Xeon 5050, 3.0 GHz, 667MHz FSB,
> >> > 1GB 533MHz RAM, system.
> >> >
> >> > This server has a LSI Logic SAS 5/i integrated adapter and dual 
> >embedded
> >> > Broadcom NetXtreme II 5708 Gigabit Ethernet NIC.
> >> <snip>
> >>
> >> Just wanted to say that I'm running FreeBSD/i386 6.1-STABLE on two Dell 
> >PE 1950's
> >> without any problems. The only thing I had to do was update the bce 
> >driver for
> >> the NIC, but other than that the mfi RAID controller is detected 
> >properly, as well
> >> as the SAS disks and RAID array. The only difference I can think of is 
> >perhaps
> >> the firmware and BIOS versions
> >>
> 
> Hi, Morten.
> 
> According to your dmesg output, yours are Dell PERC 5/i adapters and doing 
> RAID.
> This configuration is well supported by mfi driver, AFAIK.
> 
> mfi0: <Dell PERC 5/i> mem 0xd80f0000-0xd80fffff,0xfc4e0000-0xfc4fffff
> irq 78 at device 14.0 on pci2
> 
> 
> Mine is a LSI Logic SAS 5/i (no RAID) controller, which is supported
> by the mpt driver,
> wich seems to need some fixing.

Ah, good point :)

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Morten A. Middelthon

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