Date: Fri, 17 Aug 2001 10:03:04 -0600 From: "Kenneth D. Merry" <ken@kdm.org> To: Matthew Jacob <mjacob@feral.com> Cc: Jonathan Delgado <delgado@cvrc.mgh.harvard.edu>, hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: SCA backplane Message-ID: <20010817100304.A46100@panzer.kdm.org> In-Reply-To: <20010817085958.C70594-100000@wonky.feral.com>; from mjacob@feral.com on Fri, Aug 17, 2001 at 09:00:15AM -0700 References: <20010817091322.A45414@panzer.kdm.org> <20010817085958.C70594-100000@wonky.feral.com>
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On Fri, Aug 17, 2001 at 09:00:15 -0700, Matthew Jacob wrote:
>
> 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.
It does:
{doriath:/usr/home/ken:2:0} camcontrol devlist
<ECRIX VXA-1 2848> at scbus0 target 1 lun 0 (pass0,sa0)
<SPECTRA 215 1008> at scbus0 target 3 lun 0 (pass1,ch0)
<IBM DDYS-T18350M S93E> at scbus1 target 0 lun 0 (pass2,da0)
<SUPER GEM354 REV001 1.04> at scbus1 target 6 lun 0 (ses0,pass3,pt0)
Ken
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