FreeBSD and DELL Perc H200

[Simon L. B. Nielsen]

On 19 Apr 2011, at 22:16, Holger Kipp wrote:

> I have to install two production servers from Dell that come with a Perc H 200 controller.
> 
> Disks are not recognized with 8.2-RELEASE :-(

AFAIK Perc H 200 should be supported by mps(4) which wasn't merged to stable/8 until after 8.2.

> Any ideas? If this works with 8-stable, where can I download an ISO Image?


Unfortunately the latest official snapshots were before the driver was merged.  You could try first just to boot on the curent / FreeBSD 9 snapshots and see if it sees your disks at all.

You can get the snapshot from ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/snapshots/201102/ .

I don't think there are any other snapshot services still running... so (assuming mps(4) actually works with H200) you need to make a build of stable/8 yourself - the simplest approach is probably to PXE boot the servers and install by hand... but that's of course not a trivial thing if you never tried it before.

I suspect there will be new official snapshots at some point, but I don't know when...

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Simon L. B. Nielsen