From owner-freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Aug 13 07:57:23 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AB1C316A4CE for ; Fri, 13 Aug 2004 07:57:23 +0000 (GMT) Received: from a.mx.nxio.us (a.sh.nxio.us [207.227.243.193]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 49B7C43D1D for ; Fri, 13 Aug 2004 07:57:23 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from eric@catastrophe.net) Received: (qmail 5595 invoked by uid 1002); 13 Aug 2004 07:57:22 -0000 Date: Fri, 13 Aug 2004 02:57:22 -0500 From: eric To: "J.Molinger" Message-ID: <20040813075722.GI28166@catastrophe.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Organization: Catastrophe.Net X-PGP-Key-ID: 0x69A6DE3E X-PGP-Fingerprint: 836B E9F8 9DA1 62BC DD5E 29BA 904F 9C09 69A6 DE3E X-Primary-Address: cc: freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org Subject: Re: IBM x345 + EXP400 X-BeenThere: freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: SCSI subsystem List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 13 Aug 2004 07:57:23 -0000 On Thu, 2004-08-12 at 09:23:48 +0200, J.Molinger proclaimed... > Keep in mind that the ips driver can give you some trouble in the 5.2.1. > branch. The ips.h was wrong, so that the serveraid was not recoqnized. Use > the latest 5.2 current and then updated to 5.2.1 release, will keeping the > ips drivers from the current source. > Also important is that the ips driver doesn't support the scsi pass-through > bus. So if you use a tape drive (or LTO / DLTO etc) use the onboard > controller (LSI). The ServerRAID 6M is a hell of a card, very fast in RAID > 5!!. Uses the latest Xscale processor from intel and has standard 256mb > battery-cache onboard. How does one go about making these floppies? Sorry if this is off-topic from -scsi, but can someone hit me in the head with a link on how to make a -CURRENT floppy? Thanks - Eric