FreeBSD 9 and PERC H200

[Karl Dunn]

On Tue, 23 Jul 2013, Steven Hartland wrote:

> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Vincent Hoffman" <vince at unsane.co.uk>
>
>
>> On 22/07/2013 23:35, Steven Hartland wrote:
>>> mps has been in FreeBSD for years surely older than 9.1 are you
>>> sure you have a generic kernel?
>>>
>>>    Regards
>>>    Steve
>> 
>> Its certainly in GENERIC for 9.1-RELEASE in amd64
>> http://svnweb.freebsd.org/base/release/9.1.0/sys/amd64/conf/GENERIC?revision=243808&view=markup
>> but not in the i386 GENERIC
>> http://svnweb.freebsd.org/base/release/9.1.0/sys/i386/conf/GENERIC?revision=243808&view=markup
>> as per the svn log
>> http://svnweb.freebsd.org/base?view=revision&revision=212420
>
> Ahh I never user i386 ;-)
>
>   Regards
>   Steve
>
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Indeed:

root at newserver#/root(1)# uname -a
FreeBSD newserver.kad-hg.org 9.1-RELEASE FreeBSD 9.1-RELEASE #0 r243826: 
Tue Dec  4 06:55:39 UTC 2012 
root at obrian.cse.buffalo.edu:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC  i386

Thanks for the clarification.  I didn't try 9.1-release amd64.

I have no intention of using amd64 because of past trouble with alignment 
in some ports.  No need anyway: I am using 8.1-release i386 on our current 
T105, and am essentially going to clone all the functionality for the 
T110, and then abandon the T105.  I am about halfway through that effort 
so far, no trouble at all.  It will serve a LAN with about 20 clients. 
The T105 is hardly loaded at all; the T110 is replacing it for two 
reasons: T105 is six years old and has had two major failures recently 
(PS quit, and a drive wore out); needed more HD space.  So bought a new 
machine.

I do run 8.2-release amd64 on my laptop - a Dell E6520.  Nice.

Karl Dunn
kdunn at acm.org