From owner-freebsd-hardware Mon Oct 16 13:56:53 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from bastuba.partitur.se (bastuba.partitur.se [212.209.169.194]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 496AD37B66E for ; Mon, 16 Oct 2000 13:56:50 -0700 (PDT) Received: from palle.girgensohn.se (c193.150.250.87.cm-upc.chello.se [193.150.250.87]) by bastuba.partitur.se (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id WAA34326; Mon, 16 Oct 2000 22:56:48 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from girgen@partitur.se) Received: from partitur.se (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by palle.girgensohn.se (8.11.0/8.11.0) with ESMTP id e9GKugW62466; Mon, 16 Oct 2000 22:56:43 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from girgen@partitur.se) Message-ID: <39EB6B8A.8B65C4FA@partitur.se> Date: Mon, 16 Oct 2000 22:56:42 +0200 From: Palle Girgensohn Organization: Partitur X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.75 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 4.1.1-RELEASE i386) X-Accept-Language: sv, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Jason J. Horton" Cc: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Re: HP LPr & FreeBSD? References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org "Jason J. Horton" wrote: > > > Any sucess stories using Hewlett Packard's LPr rackmountable > > server with FreeBSD? It has a NetRaid 1Si Disk Array > > Controller. Has FreeBSD any support for this in 4.1.1-RELEASE? > > I have a pair of them, havent had any problems. The builtin SCSI > is supported, shows up as: > sym0: <895> port 0x9000-0x90ff mem 0xfa201000-0xfa201fff,0xfa202000-0xfa2020ff irq 10 at device 4.0 on pci1 > sym0: Symbios NVRAM, ID 7, Fast-40, SE, parity checking > sym0: open drain IRQ line driver, using on-chip SRAM > sym0: using LOAD/STORE-based firmware. I guess, I will not need it, since there is raid, right? Will it boot off the amr0? > The NetRAID 1Si and disk array shows up as: > amr0: mem 0xfa800000-0xfabfffff irq 7 at device 9.1 on pci0 > amr0: firmware \^C\^AF bios \^D\^AB 16MB memory > amr0: s/g table too low (0x1000), reallocating > amrd0: on amr0 > amrd0: 8677MB (17770496 sectors) RAID 1 (optimal) cool. > The disk array is pretty speedy, never tested the hot swap or tried to > break the array and rebuild it. The only problem we have had is that the > server doesnt easily mount in a standard 19" cabinet. You either need an > HP rack, or you need to put the servers on shelves. Hmm. This is a problem for me. Is it too wide, or why will it not mount? /Palle To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message