From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Fri May 7 06:36:56 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C392916A4CE for ; Fri, 7 May 2004 06:36:56 -0700 (PDT) Received: from copland.jeol.com (copland.jeol.com [65.215.44.133]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 173A043D62 for ; Fri, 7 May 2004 06:36:54 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from lambert@jeol.com) Received: from gris.jeol.com (gris.jeol.com [192.160.103.77]) by copland.jeol.com (8.12.9p2/8.12.9) with ESMTP id i47DaqiK021104 for ; Fri, 7 May 2004 09:36:52 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from lambert@jeol.com) Received: from bosch.jeol.com (bosch.jeol.com [192.160.103.90]) by gris.jeol.com (8.12.6p3/8.12.6) with ESMTP id i47Dap6s038095 for ; Fri, 7 May 2004 09:36:51 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from lambert@jeol.com) Date: Fri, 7 May 2004 09:36:51 -0400 (EDT) From: Mike Lambert To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <20040507085935.GA73674@stack.nl> Message-ID: References: <20040507085111.GD94511@freenix.no> <20040507085935.GA73674@stack.nl> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Subject: Re: FreeBSD 4.10 and IBM servers with RAID X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 07 May 2004 13:36:56 -0000 On Fri, 7 May 2004, Marc Olzheim wrote: > On Fri, May 07, 2004 at 10:51:11AM +0200, Morten A. Middelthon wrote: > > is anyone here running FreeBSD 4.9 or 4.10 on newer IBM servers using RAID? A > > customer wants to get IBM 2U rack-mounted servers which we will install > > FreeBSD on, and before we get that far I would like to confirm that FreeBSD > > supports the RAID controllers on these things. The alternative is to get > > HP/Compaq servers. > > Depends om the RAID controller, I guess. The ips driver (IBM (Adaptec) > ServeRAID) is present on FreeBSD 5, but not on 4... True. The ServeRAID controllers are not (yet?) supported in 4. I am running 4.9 on IBM x300, x305, and x335 (sorry, no 2U models). The x335 has a built-in (motherboard) LSI RAID chip (53C1020) that is supported by the FreeBSD mpt driver. RAID 1 mirroring has worked well, though I have yet to attempt to monitor the controller from the OS (if that is even possible). -- Michael Lambert Systems Admin, IT Dept JEOL USA Inc http://www.jeol.com