Date: Fri, 28 Apr 2006 11:58:38 -0700 From: "Ted Mittelstaedt" <tedm@toybox.placo.com> To: "William" <willay@gmail.com>, <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: RE: FreeBSD 6.0 compat with DL320 G4 Message-ID: <LOBBIFDAGNMAMLGJJCKNCENEFDAA.tedm@toybox.placo.com> In-Reply-To: <a24358fb0604280005s74e86f8ct4641e8c62b8b12f0@mail.gmail.com>
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No, but you must make sure to turn OFF raid in the BIOS settings or FreeBSD 6.1 will not recognize the drives. Ted >-----Original Message----- >From: owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org >[mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org]On Behalf Of William >Sent: Friday, April 28, 2006 12:05 AM >To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org >Subject: Re: FreeBSD 6.0 compat with DL320 G4 > > >Will this stop me using the drives without RAID? > >Regards, > >William > >On 28/04/06, Ted Mittelstaedt <tedm@toybox.placo.com> wrote: >> 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 >> > >> >> >_______________________________________________ >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: 268.5.1/326 - Release Date: 4/27/2006 >
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