Dell 1900 and SATA

[Adam Todorski]

Alex

If you give me a week I will have a Dell with the SAS5iR on it here
which I could test installing FreeBSD on before I put it into
production.

Adam

On Tue, 2006-12-05 at 17:42 +0000, Alex Zbyslaw wrote:
> Does anyone know what the standard SATA controller is on on a Dell 1900 
> and if it is supported by FreeBSD?  Browsing the Dell website has left 
> me goggle eyed and none the wiser :-(
> 
> What about the SAS 5/iR?  Is that the same as the Dell PERC5/i listed 
> under the mfi driver  or is there some other driver which supports it?  
> And does it really support SATA as well as SAS disks as the Dell website 
> implies?
> 
> Are there any other show stopping issues with these machines?  (I know 
> that the ethernet driver had some issues - resolved in 6.2? - and that 
> the DRAC5 probably doesn't work well).
> 
> All information gratefully received.
> 
> --Alex
> 
> 
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