Dell PERC 5A controller ... supported?

[Paul Saab]

Marc G. Fournier wrote:
> On Sat, 24 Jun 2006, Paul Saab wrote:
>
>> yes, but the mfi driver
>
> what is the mfi driver like?  one of the things that I like about our 
> HP servers, using the ciss driver, is being able to get a status on 
> the RAID:
>
> # camcontrol devlist
> <COMPAQ RAID 1  VOLUME OK>         at scbus0 target 0 lun 0 (da0,pass0)
>
You can use the megacli tool from www.lsil.com to manage and monitor the 
arrays.
> From the man page:
>
> BUGS
>      The driver does not support big-endian architectures at this time.
>
> big-endian == 64bit servers, I take it? :(
>
>
No. 64bit systems work just fine
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Endianness