Date: Thu, 27 Apr 2006 17:23:43 -0700 From: "Ted Mittelstaedt" <tedm@toybox.placo.com> To: <nospam@mgedv.net>, <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Cc: willay@gmail.com Subject: RE: FreeBSD 6.0 compat with DL320 G4 Message-ID: <LOBBIFDAGNMAMLGJJCKNIENCFDAA.tedm@toybox.placo.com> In-Reply-To: <000501c669f7$696b5c00$dededede@avalon.lan>
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RAID support on the DL320 G4 is broken. HP uses Adaptec firmware and Adaptec has not provided Soren programming info on their metadata format, as he requested. Ted >-----Original Message----- >From: owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org >[mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org]On Behalf Of >No@SPAM@mgEDV.net >Sent: Thursday, April 27, 2006 5:38 AM >To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org >Cc: willay@gmail.com >Subject: RE: FreeBSD 6.0 compat with DL320 G4 > > > >> Our vendor preference is HP, if anyone could share their experience >> with the following products (in regards of network/sata support and >> anything else mentioning): >> >> HP DL140 G2 >> HP DL145 G2 >> HP DL320 G4 >> HP DL360 G4 > >we tried dl320 g2, g3, g4, dl380 g3 with sata/ciss drives, >1-4gb ram, P4/XEON, DUAL-XEON with freebsd 5 and 6. >as of the *bsd's, freebsd has the best support for the >hp DL*s. sata support is not given for all embedded raid- >controllers but you can still use raid 1 functionality >using raidctl. hdd failures can render the system hang for >3-5sec's on sata devices but after this timeout, everything's >fine. rebuild is sometimes only possible by os-command, pluggin' >in the new drive is sometimes not enough ;-) > >nw/chipset support is working (at least on all machines we use). >no performance issues, except you configure as router and you use >many different irq's for all interfaces (only occurred on a machine >with 8 interfaces). > >thermal zone / ipmi support is not really >close to the vendors ideas and sometimes produces wrong >numbers, but if you don't want to set fan-speed or check >temp. on all mentioned devices, it's fine. > >also, system management like (red-power fail, red-fan fail, etc...) >is not really talking to the os and vice versa, therefore you'll >have to check for errors like this on your own. > >furthermore, bios/fw upgrades can sometimes be really annoying, >if you don't have usb-boot-support you'd run into troubles because >hp only delivers them for some specific os's and freebsd is not on >the list. > >btw. if somebody reads this and thinks: hey, bullshit i know a way >of doing this better and it works fine with my DL, please let me >know! > >best regards and good luck w. the hw :-) > >_______________________________________________ >freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list >http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions >To unsubscribe, send any mail to >"freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > >-- >No virus found in this incoming message. >Checked by AVG Free Edition. >Version: 7.1.385 / Virus Database: 268.5.0/325 - Release Date: 4/26/2006 >
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