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From: "Felipe Neuwald" <felipebgn@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: FreeBSD and IBM Blades
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Hi Ivan,

Thanks, it's good information for me. Are you running FreeBSD on other
IBM machines?

Felipe.

2008/7/1 Ivan Voras <ivoras@freebsd.org>:
> Felipe Neuwald wrote:
>>
>> Hi All,
>>
>> Does anybody running FreeBSD on IBM Blades? If yes (or no), can tell
>> me about your experience?
>
> I have one, on LS21 (2x2 Opteron). Works very fine on 6.3-R in 32-bit mode
> (PAE+SMP), after I disabled umass (USB storage). When I first set it up
> (long time ago, early in development of 7.x), 7-CURRENT wouldn't boot and I
> had trouble with 64-bit mode on both 6.x and 7.x. It's probably better now.
>
> The blade is connected to a FibreChannel disk array with a QLogic controller
> (ISP 2422), which also works without problems (you can even use
> active-passive multipath on 7.x).
>
>