Dell 2950 Perc 5/i RAID Controller and FreeBSD 6.1 Question

2006-10-26 Thread Krempasky, Mark
Hi, We have a new Dell 2950 with 6 disks, we have verified that the bios and raid controller firmware are up to date. Our issue is: after creating 3, RAID 1 virtual disk groups and initializing them we successfully install FreeBSD 6.1 on the first raid group. We then create a file system on the s

RE: PERC 5/E SAS RAID in Dell PowerEdge 1950/2950

2006-10-31 Thread Krempasky, Mark
]; Krempasky, Mark; Erik Trulsson Subject: Re: PERC 5/E SAS RAID in Dell PowerEdge 1950/2950 > > It finds the RAID controller fine. However, we're very concerned about > the lack of a management CLI like ports/sysutils/megarc. Now that 6.2 release is imminent and bce(4) has been

FreeBSD 5.5 & Dell 2950 PERC 5/i mfi question

2006-11-03 Thread Krempasky, Mark
Hi, We have a requirement to run FreeBSD 5.5 on a few Dell 2950's. Unfortunately FreeBSD5.5 doesn't have the mfi drivers for the PERCK 5/I controllers. Does anyone know of a reasonable work around to load the drivers before sysinstall and then a way to permanently install them after the OS is loade