Intel SRCU42X raid support

Scott Long scottl at freebsd.org
Fri May 21 01:26:39 PDT 2004


Jung-uk Kim wrote:
> On Thursday 13 May 2004 11:56 am, Scott Long wrote:
> 
>>Scott Long wrote:
>>
>>>Don Bowman wrote:
>>>
>>>>Does anyone know if the intel SRCU42X works with FreeBSD? Does
>>>>the iir driver support it?
>>>>
>>>>http://www.intel.com/design/servers/SRCU42X/
>>>>
>>>>It seems like a pretty good product from the
>>>>specs.
>>>>
>>>>The iir driver man page indicates it supports
>>>>
>>>>     Intel RAID Controller SRCMR
>>>>     Intel Server RAID Controller U3-l (SRCU31a)
>>>>     Intel Server RAID Controller U3-1L (SRCU31La)
>>>>     Intel Server RAID Controller U3-2 (SRCU32)
>>>>     All past and future releases of Intel and ICP RAID
>>>>Controllers.
>>>>
>>>>That last is a bold statement :)
>>>
>>>I'll ask the iir folks.  If not, it might be interesting to write
>>>a driver for it.
>>>
>>>Scott
>>
>>I just got word back that this card is not supported by the IIR
>>driver. I'll try to contact Intel about getting specs.
> 
> 
> I got the card today and I installed it.  It is supported not by 
> iir(4) but by amr(4)!  In fact, this card seems to be LSI-Logic's OEM 
> MegaRAID SCSI 320-2X:
> 
> http://www.lsilogic.com/products/ultra320_scsi_megaraid_storage_adapters/320x128.html
> 
> AFAICT, the only difference is firmware.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> JK
> 
> 
>>Scott

Thanks for this investigative work!

Scott


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