Date: Tue, 19 Mar 2002 22:01:09 -0500 (EST) From: Tim Kellers <timothyk@serv1.wallnet.com> To: James Satterfield <james@floondoon.com> Cc: Scott Long <scott_long@btc.adaptec.com>, Mike Hoskins <mike@adept.org>, <stable@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Perc 3/Di & Stable Message-ID: <20020319215907.X75467-100000@serv1.wallnet.com> In-Reply-To: <00aa01c1cfb5$afbf13d0$0feba8c0@sphynx>
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Just to beat a dying horse... PERC 3/Di are/were shipped with the Dell PowerEdge 2500 boxen (I use 3 at work, 2 with FreeBSD) and, as of the July 21 SNAP release, the 3Di controller is supported. (in kernel it's the aac device) Tim Kellers CPE/NJIT On Tue, 19 Mar 2002, James Satterfield wrote: > The Perc 3/Di is the internal adaptec card. I've run FreeBSD on these many > times with no problems. > The Perc 3/DC and 3/QC are the AMI boards. > James. > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Scott Long" <scott_long@btc.adaptec.com> > To: "Mike Hoskins" <mike@adept.org> > Cc: <stable@FreeBSD.ORG> > Sent: Tuesday, March 19, 2002 6:07 PM > Subject: Re: Perc 3/Di & Stable > > > > On Tue, 2002-03-19 at 18:39, Mike Hoskins wrote: > > > > > > Tried hitting msmith@freebsd.org, seemed to bounce... Probably fubar > > > between here and there, or I missed something. > > > > > > Just wondering if anyone's running the new Perc 3/DI RAID controller > > > (relabled AMI) from Dell under stable. I have a number of old Linux > boxes > > > with older 3/DC's and 3/SI's that are going to become more useful (I.e. > > > install FreeBSD), but for newer orders it looks like the 3/DI has become > > > the standard. Looks like the only difference is battery-backed cache... > > > So even if it's not 'officially supported', would this be relatively > easy > > > to fix? (I.e. - Can I just change a 'DC' to a 'DI' somewhere and not > get > > > bitten too badly?) > > > > I might be wrong, but I believe that the PERC3/Di is a relabled Adaptec > > RAID controller. Is it built into the motherboard, or is it an add-in > > card? If it's the former, then it's Adaptec and yes, it is well > > supported under FreeBSD. > > > > Scott > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > > with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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