Dell CERC SATA RAID controller

[ØyvinHalfdan Thuv]

> hi all
>
> A client is buying some Dell Power Edge 700 servers.
> Looking at the caratteristics of the producer,
> it has a CERC SATA RAID 6 channel.
>
> From the Freebsd compatibility list i can see
> that the driver i could use is aac(4) for
> CERC SATA RAID 2
>
> Can i use aac driver for the  CERC SATA RAID 6 channel
> controller?
>
> I must install Freebsd 4.10 and 5.3

Hi,
no one seem to have answered this (at least not to the list). Therefore I
thought that I at least could tell you that I set up a PE750 for a client
some months ago. The server uses a CERC SATA RAID 2, and is working very well
(fast & stable). I tested things like hotplugging and booting of a
stripe and it worked as expected.

The server is using 4.10 (5.2.1 didn't work with the card, 5.3 (very!)probably
does). I really wouldn't run 5.x for production use anyway.

I would persume that the aac driver would work for a 6 channel card as well,
as the channels are abstracted away from the OS point-of-view.

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