From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Nov 27 11:32:32 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DBADD37B401 for ; Wed, 27 Nov 2002 11:32:30 -0800 (PST) Received: from smtp020.tiscali.dk (smtp020.tiscali.dk [212.54.64.104]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A560843ECD for ; Wed, 27 Nov 2002 11:32:29 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from neigaard@e-box.dk) Received: from gamer (213.237.13.224.adsl.hc.worldonline.dk [213.237.13.224]) by smtp020.tiscali.dk (8.12.5/8.12.5) with ESMTP id gARJWImI007377; Wed, 27 Nov 2002 20:32:22 +0100 (MET) Date: Wed, 27 Nov 2002 20:32:16 +0100 From: =?ISO-8859-15?B?U/hyZW4gTmVpZ2FhcmQ=?= X-Mailer: The Bat! (v1.61) Reply-To: =?ISO-8859-15?B?U/hyZW4gTmVpZ2FhcmQ=?= X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Message-ID: <8540574437.20021127203216@e-box.dk> To: "Toomas Aas" Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re[2]: Need help with my new server hardware In-Reply-To: <200211271849.gARInH817187@lv.raad.tartu.ee> References: <200211271849.gARInH817187@lv.raad.tartu.ee> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Wednesday, November 27, 2002, 7:47:53 PM, Toomas wrote: TA> Hi! >> The server has 16 4.3GB SCSII disks, and it seems to have 4 RAID >> controllers (when I look at the RAID configuration tool, but please >> correct me if I'm wrong). TA> I haven't really seen a 520, but if these RAID controllers are IBM TA> ServeRAID then I have a bit of bad news to you. These don't work with TA> FreeBSD. For god knows what reasons IBM seems to prefer Linux to TA> FreeBSD so Linux drivers are available but not FreeBSD. Arrgh damn, I wish I was a hardcore C programmer, so I could make my own driver. Well I guess I have to use Linux then, bugger :( I knew that IBM haven't made a driver, but I was hoping that someone here might. TA> Regarding your specific hardware questions, have you tried www.ibm.com? TA> ISTR that quite a lot of information can be found there even for older TA> models, but it takes a lot of digging. Yes I'm starting to find some data... /Søren To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message