Subject: Re: Dell PowerEdge with PERC 5/i
To: None <current-users@netbsd.org>
From: Christos Zoulas <christos@astron.com>
List: current-users
Date: 07/25/2006 17:12:43
In article <44C609F3.7000508@johnrshannon.com>,
John R. Shannon <john@johnrshannon.com> wrote:
>Martti Kuparinen wrote:
>> Daniel Lifschitz wrote:
>> 
>>> I have a brand new Dell PowerEdge 1950 with a PERC 5/i controller. It 
>>> seems to not be supported by the actual arm driver. Is there any 
>>> release plan  - or even better a patch - for supporting this new RAID 
>>> controller?
>> 
>> Show the dmesg output (/kern/msgbuf or something similar when booting 
>> from the installation CD)...
>> 
>> Martti
>
>The PERC 5/i is a SAS controller. FreeBSD and OpenBSD support it with 
>the mfi driver:
>
>http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=mfi&apropos=0&sektion=0&manpath=FreeBSD+6.1-RELEASE&format=html

We should bring in the OpenBSD mfi driver then.

christos