From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Apr 29 11:27:01 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 024E916A406 for ; Sat, 29 Apr 2006 11:27:01 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from willay@gmail.com) Received: from nproxy.gmail.com (nproxy.gmail.com [64.233.182.189]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0221743D58 for ; Sat, 29 Apr 2006 11:26:57 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from willay@gmail.com) Received: by nproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id m18so278813nfc for ; Sat, 29 Apr 2006 04:26:56 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=o5GLIrVqh6oFh+H4cyhBSlORwMHc2uLmH8vyu+Wg1akYTp9rTLoqLHLcmENfrjcYzzyaR6dlG2Ura6KrOOWxCxN/Zf+n8lzWph8XvcJnKvJEypM+4CBPcagssW04Ri7oFmqsvSQc0eJsq/8FRx3nWzdCPTCK9zpl6lataHXq9Ok= Received: by 10.48.14.5 with SMTP id 5mr1197777nfn; Sat, 29 Apr 2006 04:26:53 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.48.48.15 with HTTP; Sat, 29 Apr 2006 04:26:53 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: Date: Sat, 29 Apr 2006 12:26:53 +0100 From: William To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline References: Subject: Re: FreeBSD 6.0 compat with DL320 G4 X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 29 Apr 2006 11:27:01 -0000 Ted, Is that the same with FreeBSD 6.0-RELEASE? Cheers, Will On 28/04/06, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: > > 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 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 > > > >