Can FreeBSD 5.3R support the RAID card MegaRAID SCSI 320-2E card?

Vivek Khera vivek at khera.org
Tue Mar 8 16:41:26 GMT 2005


On Mar 6, 2005, at 4:11 AM, Aristedes Maniatis wrote:

> On 05/03/2005, at 7:00 PM, Doug White wrote:
>
>> The amr(4) manpage in -CURRENT lists the 320 variants, the -2E
>> specifically (is that a PCI Express version?).  We have a amr(4)  
>> driver
>> update coming in shortly to -CURRENT and then RELENG_5; keep an eye 
>> out
>> for that and test it if you can.
>
> * will that update make it into 5.4?
>
> * what is the nature of the update? Is it primarily for bug fixes or 
> performance improvements? Is it an important update for someone 
> running a production machine with amr (like us) on 5.3?

All good questions I'm interested in too.  I have a box scheduled for 
delivery late next week which is a dual opteron with the 320-2X card in 
it.  I can hold it from production for a week or so for such testing.  
Hopefully the scheduling of the MFC will coincide with this timeframe 
:-)



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