Dell PERC 5A controller ... supported?

[Eric Anderson]

Marc G. Fournier wrote:
> On Sat, 24 Jun 2006, Paul Saab wrote:
> 
>> yes, but the mfi driver
> 
> what is the mfi driver like?  one of the things that I like about our HP 
> servers, using the ciss driver, is being able to get a status on the RAID:
> 
> # camcontrol devlist
> <COMPAQ RAID 1  VOLUME OK>         at scbus0 target 0 lun 0 (da0,pass0)
> 
>> From the man page:
> 
> BUGS
>      The driver does not support big-endian architectures at this time.
> 
> big-endian == 64bit servers, I take it? :(

Big-endian would be architectures like Sparc.


Eric



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