Future support for PERC 4e/XX cards

Morten A. Middelthon morten at freenix.no
Tue Feb 1 04:43:07 PST 2005


On Tue, Oct 26, 2004 at 04:51:28PM +0200, Gareth Hopkins wrote:
> Howdie,
> 
> 	Was wondering if the following cards would be supported in the 
> near future by BSD 4.10.
> 
> PERC 4e/Si and PERC 4e/Di. These are from the new Dell poweredge 1850 and 
> 2850 servers.

Hi,

if I'm not mistaken these cards use the new PCI Express bus, which FreeBSD
4.x/5.x doesn't yet support. On my latest PowerEdge 1850 I had to use an
add-in RAID controller, PERC 4/DC, in order to get RAID.

with regards,

-- 
Morten A. Middelthon

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