Re: 6.2-R on Dell Poweredge 2950 with Dell PERC 5/i [mfi(4)]

2007-05-11 Thread Scott Long
David Wolfskill wrote: On Thu, May 10, 2007 at 05:14:01PM -0600, Scott Long wrote: ... Not sure that this impression is entirely accurate. The biggest problem with MFI machines is online RAID management. The storage driver itself matured very quickly and has been very reliable. Ah; good to k

Re: 6.2-R on Dell Poweredge 2950 with Dell PERC 5/i [mfi(4)]

2007-05-11 Thread David Wolfskill
On Thu, May 10, 2007 at 05:14:01PM -0600, Scott Long wrote: > ... > Not sure that this impression is entirely accurate. The biggest problem > with MFI machines is online RAID management. The storage driver itself > matured very quickly and has been very reliable. Ah; good to know: thank you. >

Re: 6.2-R on Dell Poweredge 2950 with Dell PERC 5/i [mfi(4)]

2007-05-10 Thread Scott Long
David Wolfskill wrote: From a quick look in the lists, I get the impression that the Dell PERC 5/i may be a bit problematic. Since I hadn't any plans on using that hardware, though, I've paid more attention to other things. Not sure that this impression is entirely accurate. The biggest prob

6.2-R on Dell Poweredge 2950 with Dell PERC 5/i [mfi(4)]

2007-05-10 Thread David Wolfskill
From a quick look in the lists, I get the impression that the Dell PERC 5/i may be a bit problematic. Since I hadn't any plans on using that hardware, though, I've paid more attention to other things. Well, now a colleague is trying to run 6.2-R on one of these 2950s; dmesg says the controller is