Dell R210 Raid Controller and FreeBSD 8.1

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SalmanPourmajidi

Dear All,

I'm looking for a RAID 1 controller for a Dell R210 server, I will be installing freeBSD FreeBSD 8.1 on it. As of now the current raid controller doesn't work with Linux/FressBSD FreeBSD. Dell has asked me to purchase a new controller Perc 6 and SAS 6 controllers. Has anyone tested Perc 6 and SAS 6 with freeBSD FreeBSD with RAID 1? If not any other RAID card that is provided by dell and works with freebsd FreeBSD 8.1?

Regards,
Salman Pourmajidi
 
Phyiscal RAID Controller for Dell Server

Dear All

Has anyone used any hardware RAID controller from Dell with FreeBSD 8.1?

I need to to know which RAID controllers are supported by FreeBSD 8.1 that are provided by Dell.

Regards,
Salman :stud
 
Zhwazi said:
PERC 6 series controllers work. SAS 6 I'm unsure about.
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This is a Dell SAS6/iR in a PowerEdge R300 with FreeBSD 8-STABLE:

Code: 
mpt0: <LSILogic SAS/SATA Adapter> port 0xec00-0xecff mem 0xde2ec000-0xde2effff,0xde2f0000-0xde2fffff irq 16 at device 0.0 on pci5
mpt0: [ITHREAD]
mpt0: MPI Version=1.5.18.0
mpt0: Capabilities: ( RAID-0 RAID-1E RAID-1 )
mpt0: 1 Active Volume (2 Max)
mpt0: 2 Hidden Drive Members (14 Max)
mpt0:vol0(mpt0:0:0): Settings ( Member-WCE Hot-Plug-Spares High-Priority-ReSync )
mpt0:vol0(mpt0:0:0): Using Spare Pool: 0
mpt0:vol0(mpt0:0:0): 2 Members:
      (mpt0:1:9:0): Primary Online
      (mpt0:1:1:0): Secondary Online
mpt0:vol0(mpt0:0:0): RAID-1 - Optimal
mpt0:vol0(mpt0:0:0): Status ( Enabled )
(mpt0:vol0:1): Physical (mpt0:0:1:0), Pass-thru (mpt0:1:0:0)
(mpt0:vol0:1): Online
(mpt0:vol0:0): Physical (mpt0:0:9:0), Pass-thru (mpt0:1:1:0)
(mpt0:vol0:0): Online
ses0 at mpt0 bus 0 scbus0 target 8 lun 0
ses0: <DP BACKPLANE 1.05> Fixed Enclosure Services SCSI-5 device 
ses0: 300.000MB/s transfers
ses0: SCSI-3 SES Device
da0 at mpt0 bus 0 scbus0 target 0 lun 0
da0: <Dell VIRTUAL DISK 1028> Fixed Direct Access SCSI-5 device 
da0: 300.000MB/s transfers
da0: Command Queueing enabled
da0: 285568MB (584843264 512 byte sectors: 255H 63S/T 36404C)

(0:185) new-gate:/tmp# mptutil show adapter
mpt0 Adapter:
       Board Name: SAS6IR
   Board Assembly: 
        Chip Name: C1068E
    Chip Revision: UNUSED
      RAID Levels: RAID0, RAID1, RAID1E
    RAID0 Stripes: 64K
   RAID1E Stripes: 64K
 RAID0 Drives/Vol: 2-10
 RAID1 Drives/Vol: 2
RAID1E Drives/Vol: 3-10

It works fine, aside from occasional:

Code: 
mpt0: mpt_cam_event: 0xNN

messages. They're some sort of maintenance messages that the FreeBSD driver and mptutil don't decode.
 
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