PERC3/Di replacement

[Peter Smith]

I feel your pain with regards to the Dell website.  8(

This is the first time in a long time I've seen any out-right updates as 
far as the _driver_ goes.  I've seen the PERCs fail at BIOS and also 
while in Linux.  I've seen them fail with and without load.  They just 
seem to start self-destructing, especially when your hardware is over a 
year old.  I just stopped using them--it was way too much hassle.  
(Although I have a few using PERC3/Di's which haven't displayed any 
problems, but then again they may be still using the magic 2.4.9 kernel 
series, i.e. very old.)

Peter

Per Steinar Iversen wrote:

>Clicking on:
>
>http://support.dell.com/FileLib/Format.aspx?ReleaseID=R71817&sws=fw
>
>Sends me to a page that only says:
>
>  
>
>>Dell Support in the United States. Choose another region 
>>    
>>
>
>Then it wants my service tag. Sigh.
>
>In the end this download seems to be here from my part of the world:
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>http://support.euro.dell.com/no/en/filelib/download/index.asp?fileid=R71815
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>I wonder what Dell gains by making their customers jump around like this?
>
>The patch supports AS3 BETA but not AS3 U1. I am tempted to build this and
>see what happens though.
>
>-psi
>
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