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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>,
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Subject: Re: SCA backplane
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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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Kenneth Merry
ken@kdm.org

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