Date: Sun, 19 Sep 1999 21:28:50 -0700 From: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> To: John <papalia@UDel.Edu> Cc: freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Raid Drivers Message-ID: <199909200428.VAA28580@dingo.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 19 Sep 1999 17:08:13 EDT." <4.1.19990919170554.009486c0@unix01.voicenet.com>
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Don't expect a driver for the Perc (really an AMI MegaRAID) anytime before the 4.0 release. There are a number of issues to deal with before we can even start looking at a driver. > I posted this question to freebsd-questions, and the answer left me hope, > but I was hoping to get more details. If I understand the mail archives > correctly, someone was planning on working for a driver for the Dell > Perc2/SC raid controller. Any update on that? The reason I'm asking is > that my boss is looking at installing 5 servers, and I'll be picking the > OS. I'd like to go with FreeBSD, but if the driver won't be out in the > next couple of months, I'll need to scramble to pick something different > (which I'd rather not do :) ) I'd suggest that if you *must* have hardware raid, get an external unit like an Infortrend. -- \\ The mind's the standard \\ Mike Smith \\ of the man. \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ -- Joseph Merrick \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-scsi" in the body of the message
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