FreeBSD on Dell 2850

[Alex Zbyslaw]

Alex Dyas wrote:

> I'm looking for a rackmount server to run FreeBSD on.  I know Dell 
> reasonably well (though mostly with Linux), and the 2850 seems to fit 
> what I'm looking for.  However I'm concerned about support for the 
> PERC4e/Di RAID controller, ie monitoring the state of.  There was some 
> talk of support through LSI's own drivers (the link escapes me for the 
> minute), but this was for FBSD 5.n.  Does anyone have any up to date 
> experience / info?

sysutils/megarc.  Monitors on 5.4.  One would hope that it continues to 
in 6.X but I haven't tried.

hth,

--Alex