Dell's PERC6i

[Daniel Gerzo]

Hello Xin,

Thursday, July 10, 2008, 11:16:40 PM, you wrote:

> I *think* that PERC 6/i would appear as "LSI MegaSAS 1078" rather than
> "Dell PERC 6/i" because of the following catch-all ID quirk:

> {0x1000, 0x0060, 0xffff, 0xffff, MFI_FLAGS_1078,  "LSI MegaSAS 1078"},

> Later FreeBSD versions would identify it as "PERC 6":

> {0x1000, 0x0060, 0x1028, 0xffff, MFI_FLAGS_1078,  "Dell PERC 6"},

> Therefore this should work just fine (out-of-the-box) on 7.0-R except it
> gave different names...

Correct, I suppose these will be handled by mfi(4) device driver. I
have some Dell SC1430s that have Dell PERC 5i controllers.

One disadvantage of these is that there's no native monitoring tool
for mfi(4) based devices. There's only a linux utility which I haven't
tried so far. However, it seems like porting might be easy and bz@ has
idicated some interest in this work. He unfortunately seems to be busy
these days ;-(

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 Daniel                            mailto:danger at FreeBSD.org