Date: Mon, 15 May 2000 18:14:45 +0100 From: Mark Blackman <tmb@sophos.com> To: Mike Smith <msmith@freebsd.org> Cc: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Re: PERC 3/Si support on Dell PowerEdge Message-ID: <20000515171426.D6DC045C1C@viking.sophos.com> In-Reply-To: Message from Mike Smith <msmith@freebsd.org> of "Mon, 15 May 2000 10:06:21 PDT." <200005151706.KAA12823@mass.cdrom.com>
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I presume you mean Adaptec won't release these details except under some kind of NDA? The Linux installation of these PowerEdge servers does come with a binary-only driver (perhaps written by Adaptec?) so I'm guessing they released it to somebody. I had suspected it wasn't related to the AMI designs as it couldn't find any correspondance between it and the AMI descriptions. Aren't Adaptec usually a bit more cooperative? Thanks for the info anyway. > > Will anyone comment on FreeBSD support for the PERC 3/Si RAID > > controller supplied with the Dell PowerEdge 2450. > > (http://www.dell.com/html/us/compt/pedge/perc_si_dc.htm) > > It's an Adaptec design, and unless and until Adaptec release details on > the programming interface support is not going to happen. > > Apart from the product name, and one of the chips involved, it bears no > resemblance to the AMI-derived members of the PERC family. > > -- > \\ Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day. \\ Mike Smith > \\ Tell him he should learn how to fish himself, \\ msmith@freebsd.org > \\ and he'll hate you for a lifetime. \\ msmith@cdrom.com > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message
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