Date: Tue, 25 Oct 2005 09:25:53 -0700 From: "Devon H. O'Dell" <devon.odell@gmail.com> To: Elliot Finley <lists@efinley.com> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD on IBM blade servers Message-ID: <9ab217670510250925n462ccb7em@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <009901c5d97e$cc3f14c0$32cba1cd@science1> References: <E1DY2ho-0001te-Da@cs1.cs.huji.ac.il> <20050518153328.Y87264@carver.gumbysoft.com> <009901c5d97e$cc3f14c0$32cba1cd@science1>
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2005/10/25, Elliot Finley <lists@efinley.com>: > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Doug White" <dwhite@gumbysoft.com> > > On Tue, 17 May 2005, Danny Braniss wrote: > > > > > as far as i have checked, the IBM and Intel blade server are 'almost' > > > identical, if so then FreeBSD 5.x works fine with 'Intel SBXL52', but= so > > > far not much success with the EM64 based SBX82. > > > > I'm working on the SBX82s right now. I have a workaround that gets them > > booting. Finding the root issue will take some more work; its a > > data-corruption issue. > > What is the status on the SBX82s? > > Elliot They work well. There were a couple patches Doug made for the blades and they're all committed and working. We've got a customer with several SBX82 blades in a datacenter (and they get hammered _hard_), two running FreeBSD and two running Windows, and the Windows blades appear to have more trouble. (But you were expecting that, right? :-)). --Devon
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