I've got two poweredge 2650's w/ PERC 3/di raid cards and I've tried OpenBSD 3.7, 3.6 and 3.5. I've found that the aac in 3.7 is completely unstable, the aac in 3.6 would have problems after an hour or so of heavy use. BUT, 3.5 seems to be stable but now I'm stuck on a version of an os that is about to become unsupported.
I think the only long term solution is to change hardware. I have been considering Sun's trade in offer. I haven't found it on Sun's site but it is mentioned here (http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=26143) I have a friend that's a Sun dealer www.acsacs.com and they said they honor it. I don't believe they sell online. Does anyone know if OpenBSD likes this hardware? It's really Adaptec's fault. Those fuckers won't give up the source so the OpenBSD developers can't provide a good driver for their hardware. My company will not purchase any more servers from Dell as long as they continue to use Adaptec cards. -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jan Johansson Sent: Tuesday, September 20, 2005 8:14 AM To: Ryan Rothert Cc: misc@openbsd.org Subject: Re: Dell PowerEdge 2650 Ryan Rothert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 3.6 will install on it. I believe the aac driver still exists > but is disabled by default. You could install 3.6, recompile > the kernel with aac support enabled then upgrade. This is a bad advice. The aac driver was disabled because it was broken and could not be fixed because there was no documentation. Using aac is like playing Russian Roulette with your data.
