On Sun, 2005-04-03 at 00:18 +0200, Simon L. Nielsen wrote: > On 2005.04.02 14:58:44 -0700, Jon Kuster wrote: > > > Is anyone successfully using the PERC4ei in a Dell PowerEdge 1850? I'm > > Yes, I have a PERC 4e/Si (AFAIR it's that controller) in a PowerEdge > 1850, though the system is currently running 6.0-CURRENT. > > > looking to purchase one, but I haven't been able to figure out if the > > PERC4ei is supported. The closest I've been able to find is some info > > for Linux that says it's based on an LSI megaraid (link below). So can > > anyone confirm that the 4ei is supported in 5.3 (or 5.4) or not? > > Dell PERC 4e/Di and Dell PERC 4e/Si are supported, at least in > 5-STABLE (i.e. in the upcomming 5.4), probably also in 5.3 (I can't > remember wrt. to 5.3, but I can test tomorrow if you are interested in > knowing). > > See also: > > http://www.FreeBSD.org/relnotes/5-STABLE/hardware/i386/support.html#DISK >
So everyone who is interested knows, the PERC4ei is an amr(4) controller. The relevant bits from dmesg: amr0: <LSILogic MegaRAID 1.51> mem 0xdfde0000-0xdfdfffff,0xd80f0000-0xd80fffff irq 46 at device 14.0 on pci2 amr0: <LSILogic PERC 4e/Si> Firmware 516A, BIOS H418, 256MB RAM amrd0: <LSILogic MegaRAID logical drive> on amr0 amrd0: 69880MB (143114240 sectors) RAID 1 (optimal) _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hardware To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
