From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Feb 5 06:25:23 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EDCB616A417; Tue, 5 Feb 2008 06:25:23 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mcdouga9@egr.msu.edu) Received: from mx.egr.msu.edu (surfnturf.egr.msu.edu [35.9.37.164]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C435513C45B; Tue, 5 Feb 2008 06:25:23 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mcdouga9@egr.msu.edu) Received: from localhost (localhost.egr.msu.edu [127.0.0.1]) by mx.egr.msu.edu (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8C37A2EB966; Tue, 5 Feb 2008 01:09:16 -0500 (EST) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at egr.msu.edu Received: from mx.egr.msu.edu ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (surfnturf.egr.msu.edu [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id a7XZ0oHGkAZ3; Tue, 5 Feb 2008 01:09:16 -0500 (EST) Received: from [10.0.0.234] (c-208-53-102-126.chrlmi.cablespeed.com [208.53.102.126]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) (Authenticated sender: mcdouga9) by mx.egr.msu.edu (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4A9842EB953; Tue, 5 Feb 2008 01:09:16 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <47A7FD86.1020407@egr.msu.edu> Date: Tue, 05 Feb 2008 01:09:10 -0500 From: Adam McDougall User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.9 (X11/20080131) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Daniel Eischen References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD on Sun Fire X4100 server X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 05 Feb 2008 06:25:24 -0000 Daniel Eischen wrote: > I've searched and haven't found a definitive "this all works" > response yet. Is anyone running some form of 7.0 or -current > one one of these systems? Does USB keyboard, SAS drives without > RAID, and all ethernet devices work as expected? > I have ran 7.0 on one in the past and do not recall any problems. Actually I did install 7.0 on a X4100-M2 recently and no problems so far. I plan to upgrade the rest eventually, as time or priority permits. I have several of them running 6.2-stable in prod, including X4100 and X4100-M2. The SAS driver went in between 6.1 and 6.2, and kbdmux around the same time made it easier to get a usb keyboard working wherever you feel like plugging it in (otherwise the back USB port takes precedence over the ILOM virtual USB keyboard, but the ILOM virtual USB keyboard takes precedence over the front USB port. The X4100 has 4 intel gig ports that work fine. The X4100-M2 has 2 intel and 2 nvidia, and I have only tested the intel ports (although im sure the others were probed by a default kernel). I've used the SAS drives, I had the best luck with the integrated mirroring (may have had stability problems using GEOM-mirror) and definitely had major stability problems when using (unsupported) SATA drives in it with GEOM-mirror. The chipset had some poor speed interactions with the SATA drives anyway. I can provide more information on some of the ILOM upgrading quirks and procedures if wanted. Assembling all the version prerequisites and noting drawbacks of some versions took me a while.