Re: Dell's PERC6i

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Julio Gomez wrote:
| I am planning to purchase Dell PowerEdge 2950 III with RAID 5
configuration.
|
| I checked Hardware Note on FreeBSD site but Dell's PERC6i is not on the
| list. Is it supported by FreeBSD 7.0 and/or FreeBSD 6.3
|
| Thank you very much for your help in advance.
|
| === Hardware Configuration ===
|
| Backplane:
| 1x6 Backplane for 3.5-inch Hard Drives [Included in Price]
|
| SAS RAID Contoller:
| PERC6i SAS RAID Controller, 2x4 Connectors, Int, PCIe, 256MB Cache, x6
Back
|
| Hard Drive Configuration:
| Integrated SAS/SATA RAID 5, PERC 6/i Integrated
|
| Hard Drive:
| Five (5) 146GB 15K RPM Serial-Attach SCSI 3Gbps 3.5-in HotPlug Hard Drive

I *think* that PERC 6/i would appear as "LSI MegaSAS 1078" rather than
"Dell PERC 6/i" because of the following catch-all ID quirk:

{0x1000, 0x0060, 0xffff, 0xffff, MFI_FLAGS_1078,  "LSI MegaSAS 1078"},

Later FreeBSD versions would identify it as "PERC 6":

{0x1000, 0x0060, 0x1028, 0xffff, MFI_FLAGS_1078,  "Dell PERC 6"},

Therefore this should work just fine (out-of-the-box) on 7.0-R except it
gave different names...

Cheers,
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Xin LI <delphij_at_delphij.net>	http://www.delphij.net/
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