Date: Tue, 13 Jun 2000 16:36:11 -0400 From: "John Straiton" <jks@clickcom.com> To: <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: RAID 5 with DELL Poweredge Servers & FreeBSD Message-ID: <NEBBIGBGCKECLJCEOHJCAEGGCDAA.jks@clickcom.com>
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I wanted to post a follow up to my own message with information that I was given (thanks Erik and Alan) and with what we have found ourselves..mostly because I noticed that with at least 5 PERC questions in the archive, there were *NO* working answers (that I could find at least). The Dell Poweredge 2400 ships with a PERC/Si controller with a chip provided by Adaptec (Unsupported). However they do *optionally* will sell you a PERC/SC card which uses a MegaRaid chipset (Supported!). After ordering an additional RAID card (because the Si controller is onboard) and installing it, the container we created was immediately detected by FreeBSD and everything worked out great! We've now had the machine up for about a week with a 36GB container created , RAID 5 and have no problems. Good luck, I hope this helps. John Straiton ClickCom, Inc. jks@clickcom.com (704)365-9970x101 > My assistant recently ordered a machine for our use here but failed to check > the HCL for 4.0, and therefore ordered a 2400 series Dell Poweredge that > uses the PERC 2/Si 64MB RAID controller. Now I've checked the mailing list > archives and haven't been too happy with what I'm seeing. The only one with > a smidgin of hope was: > http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=156897+159028+/usr/local/www/db/ > text/2000/freebsd-questions/20000123.freebsd-questions > > However it seems to lend to 4.0-current (which I would imagine JAN's version > of is now RELEASE) > as having support for it but I can assure you that unless it's something you > have to enable specifically during install, it's not. I would just try the > 3.0 solution provided there however the Dell comes without IDE or UWSCSI > ports on it, either of which I would have a HD for, instead only having a > 50pin scsi port on it for which I do not have a drive to test with. > > I would ask if anyone has had any success with any workaround, if not, if > you had any suggestions on things I could *try* as a workaround. And of > course, lastly, if anyone has a simple > recommendation as to which card they would buy right now in lieu of the PERC > we existingly have I would be in your debt. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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