Dell PERC5/e RAID controller

Adam Todorski todora at scorec.rpi.edu
Thu Nov 30 06:56:00 PST 2006


Hello

I am considering a Dell 2950 with the PERC5/e SAS RAID controller
attached to their MD1000 SAS JBOD product and I would like to run 6.2-
RELEASE on it (when it comes out).  Has anyone had any experience with
this hardware scenario with FreeBSD?  Is the PERC5/e controller
supported?  My research on this topic has not lead to a conclusion one
way or another, as the man page for the mfi(4) driver indicates that the
PARC5/i (the internal controller in the 2950 that I will have the OS
live on) is supported and that the LSI 8480E is supported (which I've
heard that the PERC5/e is based on) but not the PERC5/e explicitly.

Any insight would be much appreciated!

Adam
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Scientific Computation Research Center
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
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