Date: Sat, 29 Apr 2006 17:46:51 +0100 From: William <willay@gmail.com> To: "Ted Mittelstaedt" <tedm@toybox.placo.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD 6.0 compat with DL320 G4 Message-ID: <a24358fb0604290946m3ba94b25r8ede4f40570fe357@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <LOBBIFDAGNMAMLGJJCKNOENGFDAA.tedm@toybox.placo.com> References: <a24358fb0604290426o53573ca1va3e3e67d0fd29b91@mail.gmail.com> <LOBBIFDAGNMAMLGJJCKNOENGFDAA.tedm@toybox.placo.com>
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Hi Ted, Thanks for the information regarding the Ethernet chipset, does the same thing happen if you configure the interface via rc.conf/ifconfig once the system is up and running? If the ethernet chipset support at the moment is flakey then I might have to look at a different vender, ethernet being one of the most important devices I need working for what I'm after! :( Cheers, Will On 29/04/06, Ted Mittelstaedt <tedm@toybox.placo.com> wrote: > > Hi William, > > No. Soren added a bunch of error checking code in the ata driver > for 6.1 to reject oddball cases and one of the things it does is ignore > the > disks on this particular server if the RAID functionality is turned > on in the BIOS. However, even though FreeBSD 6.0 sees the disks if the > RAID setup is switched on in BIOS, it does not see the RAID array so > it is pretty much an error to have this BIOS option turned on. > > Until support for the Adaptec metadata format is added, the > RAID firmware in this server is useless. > > But you still can get RAID going on the server now by doing this: > > Turn off SATA Raid in the BIOS. Install a scratch version of > FreeBSD. Login as root issue the command "atacontrol create RAID1 ad4 > ad6" > Immediately reboot. Reinstall FreeBSD on disk "ar0" > > This will give you chipset RAID just you can't rebuild the array from > the BIOS. > > More importantly, though, is trouble with the Ethernet chipset. > > During the install it will ask if you want to configure the > Ethernet interface. Do not do this. If you do the system will > immediately panic. > > Once the system is up and running, recompile the kernel to use the > fix discussed in PR kern/94307. A discussion of how you might > go about implementing this fix is in PR kern/94863 > > Unfortunately the bge maintainers) are very loath to believe that > they are going to have to make exceptions in their code for all > the different hacked up variants of this Ethernet chipset, but > in reviewing the PR database I suspect this is the case. > > Ted > > >-----Original Message----- > >From: owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > >[mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org]On Behalf Of William > >Sent: Saturday, April 29, 2006 4:27 AM > >To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > >Subject: Re: FreeBSD 6.0 compat with DL320 G4 > > > > > >Ted, > > > >Is that the same with FreeBSD 6.0-RELEASE? > > > >Cheers, > > > >Will > > > >On 28/04/06, Ted Mittelstaedt <tedm@toybox.placo.com> wrote: > >> > >> No, but you must make sure to turn OFF raid in the BIOS > >> settings or FreeBSD 6.1 will not recognize the drives. > >> > >> Ted > >> > >> >-----Original Message----- > >> >From: owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > >> >[mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org]On Behalf Of William > >> >Sent: Friday, April 28, 2006 12:05 AM > >> >To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > >> >Subject: Re: FreeBSD 6.0 compat with DL320 G4 > >> > > >> > > >> >Will this stop me using the drives without RAID? > >> > > >> >Regards, > >> > > >> >William > >> > > >> >On 28/04/06, Ted Mittelstaedt <tedm@toybox.placo.com> wrote: > >> >> RAID support on the DL320 G4 is broken. HP uses Adaptec > >> >> firmware and Adaptec has not provided Soren programming info > >> >> on their metadata format, as he requested. > >> >> > >> >> Ted > >> >> > >> >> >-----Original Message----- > >> >> >From: owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > >> >> >[mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org]On Behalf Of > >> >> >No@SPAM@mgEDV.net > >> >> >Sent: Thursday, April 27, 2006 5:38 AM > >> >> >To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > >> >> >Cc: willay@gmail.com > >> >> >Subject: RE: FreeBSD 6.0 compat with DL320 G4 > >> >> > > >> >> > > >> >> > > >> >> >> Our vendor preference is HP, if anyone could share > >their experience > >> >> >> with the following products (in regards of network/sata > >support and > >> >> >> anything else mentioning): > >> >> >> > >> >> >> HP DL140 G2 > >> >> >> HP DL145 G2 > >> >> >> HP DL320 G4 > >> >> >> HP DL360 G4 > >> >> > > >> >> >we tried dl320 g2, g3, g4, dl380 g3 with sata/ciss drives, > >> >> >1-4gb ram, P4/XEON, DUAL-XEON with freebsd 5 and 6. > >> >> >as of the *bsd's, freebsd has the best support for the > >> >> >hp DL*s. sata support is not given for all embedded raid- > >> >> >controllers but you can still use raid 1 functionality > >> >> >using raidctl. hdd failures can render the system hang for > >> >> >3-5sec's on sata devices but after this timeout, everything's > >> >> >fine. rebuild is sometimes only possible by os-command, pluggin' > >> >> >in the new drive is sometimes not enough ;-) > >> >> > > >> >> >nw/chipset support is working (at least on all machines we use). > >> >> >no performance issues, except you configure as router and you use > >> >> >many different irq's for all interfaces (only occurred on > >a machine > >> >> >with 8 interfaces). > >> >> > > >> >> >thermal zone / ipmi support is not really > >> >> >close to the vendors ideas and sometimes produces wrong > >> >> >numbers, but if you don't want to set fan-speed or check > >> >> >temp. on all mentioned devices, it's fine. > >> >> > > >> >> >also, system management like (red-power fail, red-fan > >fail, etc...) > >> >> >is not really talking to the os and vice versa, therefore you'll > >> >> >have to check for errors like this on your own. > >> >> > > >> >> >furthermore, bios/fw upgrades can sometimes be really annoying, > >> >> >if you don't have usb-boot-support you'd run into troubles because > >> >> >hp only delivers them for some specific os's and freebsd is not on > >> >> >the list. > >> >> > > >> >> >btw. if somebody reads this and thinks: hey, bullshit i know a way > >> >> >of doing this better and it works fine with my DL, please let me > >> >> >know! > >> >> > > >> >> >best regards and good luck w. the hw :-) > >> >> > > >> >> >_______________________________________________ > >> >> >freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > >> >> >http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > >> >> >To unsubscribe, send any mail to > >> >> >"freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > >> >> > > >> >> >-- > >> >> >No virus found in this incoming message. > >> >> >Checked by AVG Free Edition. > >> >> >Version: 7.1.385 / Virus Database: 268.5.0/325 - Release > >> >Date: 4/26/2006 > >> >> > > >> >> > >> >> > >> >_______________________________________________ > >> >freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > >> >http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > >> >To unsubscribe, send any mail to > >> >"freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > >> > > >> >-- > >> >No virus found in this incoming message. > >> >Checked by AVG Free Edition. > >> >Version: 7.1.385 / Virus Database: 268.5.1/326 - Release > >Date: 4/27/2006 > >> > > >> > >> > >_______________________________________________ > >freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > >http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > >To unsubscribe, send any mail to > >"freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > > > >-- > >No virus found in this incoming message. > >Checked by AVG Free Edition. > >Version: 7.1.385 / Virus Database: 268.5.1/327 - Release Date: 4/28/2006 > > > >
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