Support for PERC4/Ei RAID controller?

[Bucky Jordan]

I talked with Dell on this one- basically the Perc4/Ei uses the PCI Express bus, which apparently causes some issues- it's a completely different setup than the Di. So, as an interim solution, we ordered add-in Di cards. Once support for PCI Express gets a little better, we'll swap to the onboard Perc4/Ei controller to take advantage of the faster bus and additional RAID cache. Since the unit supports up to 6 drives, the additional Raid card can still be put to good use.

It seems the only other option at the moment is to run without RAID (which we're not willing to do). If anyone has any other suggestions, please let me know.

As a side note for those ordering the new PowerEdge 2850's with the Nocona processors- I successfully completed a default install of 5.2.1-RELEASE today on our second box (SCSI only, no RAID). Haven't installed any ports or done any configuration yet- if anyone's interested I can post details of what went smoothly.

Hope that helps,

Bucky


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