Thanks to everyone for their input.
This morning I was able to configure the RAID 5 logical drive 3 x 36 gig
drives for a 72 gig logical drive --67 gig and change actually, the hd
overhead chewed up > 4 gig.
The boot disks from the 7/21/01 snapshot from releng4.freebsd.org worked
like a charm and, after cvsupping the sources (I know, a somewhat
hazardous procedure in a code freeze), I was able to compile an SMP kernel
that supported both the machine's processors. I installed and ran the
dnetc client just so I could watch the CPU's switch back in forth in a top
screen. :-) FreeBSD on this machine makes for one snappy server.
Thanks again for all your help.
Tim Kellers
CPE/NJIT
On Tue, 31 Jul 2001, Mike Smith wrote:
> > Here is a summary of PERC hardware from Mike Smith who did most (all)
> > of the driver work for them:
> > The PERC, PERC 2/SC, PERC 2/DC and PERC 3/D* are AMI designs.
> >
> > The PERC 2/Si, PERC 2/Di, PERC 3/Si and PERC 2/QC are Adaptec designs.
> >
> > "PERC" means "this is a Dell-branded RAID controller".
> > "2" and "3" refer to 40MHz vs 80MHz SCSI support.
> > "S" "D" and "Q" are single, dual and quad channel designations.
> > "i" means it's integrated onto the server motherboard.
> > "C" means it's an addin card.
> > "L" means it's the low-cost version.
>
> Just to amend this; the 3/DC is an AMI controller, but the 3/Di is an
> Adaptec design.
>
> Another way of looking at it is that if it's an 'i', or a QC, it's an
> Adaptec. Otherwise it's an AMI. Knowing Dell, though, this may change
> again without too much notice. 8(
>
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