From owner-freebsd-hardware Fri Aug 17 9: 0:37 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from beppo.feral.com (beppo.feral.com [192.67.166.79]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1E56F37B405 for ; Fri, 17 Aug 2001 09:00:34 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mjacob@feral.com) Received: from wonky.feral.com (wonky.feral.com [192.67.166.7]) by beppo.feral.com (8.11.3/8.11.3) with ESMTP id f7HG0MI48963; Fri, 17 Aug 2001 09:00:22 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mjacob@feral.com) Date: Fri, 17 Aug 2001 09:00:15 -0700 (PDT) From: Matthew Jacob Reply-To: To: "Kenneth D. Merry" Cc: Jonathan Delgado , Subject: Re: SCA backplane In-Reply-To: <20010817091322.A45414@panzer.kdm.org> Message-ID: <20010817085958.C70594-100000@wonky.feral.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Fri, 17 Aug 2001, Kenneth D. Merry wrote: > On Fri, Aug 17, 2001 at 10:20:01 -0400, Jonathan Delgado wrote: > > I am considering a Supermicro 6040G "SuperServer" as the base for a new > > system that I need to build. The hardware seems pretty swank, and one of > > its features is 4 hot-plug (same as hot-swap?) U160 SCA bays/backplane with > > a QLogic GEM354 management controller. I have built many systems before, > > but this is the first time I would have ever used a SCSI backplane. So if > > anyone has had any experience with them (or like products) I have a couple > > questions: > > > > Is this an item that should behave transparently to FreeBSD? > > Yes. Actually, the GEM chip might even show up as an ses(4) addressable instance. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message