From owner-freebsd-amd64@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Apr 4 18:05:09 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 62F9816A401; Tue, 4 Apr 2006 18:05:09 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from tom.hurst@clara.net) Received: from spork.qfe3.net (spork.qfe3.net [212.13.207.101]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C875F43D49; Tue, 4 Apr 2006 18:05:08 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from tom.hurst@clara.net) Received: from [81.104.145.173] (helo=voi.aagh.net) by spork.qfe3.net with esmtp (Exim 4.60 (FreeBSD)) (envelope-from ) id 1FQptq-000JZq-AX; Tue, 04 Apr 2006 19:05:06 +0100 Received: from freaky by voi.aagh.net with local (Exim 4.54 (FreeBSD)) id 1FQptr-000KXR-B1; Tue, 04 Apr 2006 19:05:07 +0100 Date: Tue, 4 Apr 2006 19:05:07 +0100 From: Thomas Hurst To: David Paul Zimmerman Message-ID: <20060404180507.GA75325@voi.aagh.net> Mail-Followup-To: David Paul Zimmerman , freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org, David Robillard , Matthew Jacob References: <8e904fab0b3c4704c1bc045b480b9fce@ack.berkeley.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <8e904fab0b3c4704c1bc045b480b9fce@ack.berkeley.edu> Organization: Not much. User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.11 Sender: Thomas Hurst Cc: David Robillard , Matthew Jacob , freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Sun Fire X4100 now booting from LSI1064 SAS X-BeenThere: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting FreeBSD to the AMD64 platform List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 04 Apr 2006 18:05:09 -0000 * David Paul Zimmerman (dpz@ack.berkeley.edu) wrote: > *Many* thanks to mjacob for his mpt driver improvements. I was able > to boot 7.0-CURRENT-SNAP013-amd64-disc1.iso (3/10/2006 snapshot) > from CD on my X4100 and install from scratch directly to a SAS disk > in slot 0. Booted perfectly. Did a csup at ~3/30/2006 15:17, > buildworld/kernel, installkernel/world, all is still good. Well, that's what we[1] paid him for; thanks Matt :) We're running the CURRENT mpt driver copied back to several RELENG_6 machines without problems, ranging from 2GB to 10GB, 2 to 4 drives, and 2 to 4 cores; they've proved to be stable enough for production use, although IO seemed to be somewhat bottlenecked with MySQL and gmirror+gstripe based RAID10. They make lovely general purpose servers, not least because of the excellent lights out management, and they of course run Linux fine too, which is good for MySQL throughput if nothing else. Hope to see an mpt MFC before long :) 1: http://www.newzbin.com/ -- Thomas 'Freaky' Hurst http://hur.st/