From owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Aug 31 11:16:17 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6999716A41F for ; Wed, 31 Aug 2005 11:16:17 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from nospam@mgedv.net) Received: from mgedv.at (www.mgedv.at [195.3.87.103]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 13F0A43D45 for ; Wed, 31 Aug 2005 11:16:15 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from nospam@mgedv.net) Received: from metis (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mgedv.at (SMTPServer) with ESMTP id 63508186800 for ; Wed, 31 Aug 2005 13:16:14 +0200 (MEST) From: "mdff" To: Date: Wed, 31 Aug 2005 13:16:29 +0200 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Microsoft Office Outlook, Build 11.0.6353 Thread-Index: AcWsmVw82FDYO1PcSGWK6wubiu2GxQBg+IyA X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.2527 Message-Id: <20050831111614.63508186800@mgedv.at> Subject: fiber-channel HBA as bootdevice for rel 5/6 (OP was on fb-q) X-BeenThere: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: nospam@mgedv.net List-Id: Internet Services Providers List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 31 Aug 2005 11:16:17 -0000 hi, i'm posting this to the isp list to hope there's more than 0 replies on that here ;-) we would like to run the following configuration: some i386-servers, each connecting to a SAN with a PCI or PCI-X FC-HBA with boot-ROM showing up as a SCSI-device for freebsd to use as the root-disk. does anyone know working HBAs (2Gbit speed) with rel 5 or 6. best would be support with the default kernel! anyone some suggestions/experiences with that? br... PS: please, just reply to the list, i'm on it!