From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Oct 26 16:38:57 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 44C8E16A41F for ; Wed, 26 Oct 2005 16:38:57 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from rainer@ultra-secure.de) Received: from bsd.ultra-secure.de (bsd.ultra-secure.de [62.146.20.26]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5E26443D45 for ; Wed, 26 Oct 2005 16:38:56 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from rainer@ultra-secure.de) Received: (qmail 25514 invoked by uid 89); 26 Oct 2005 16:38:55 -0000 Received: by simscan 1.1.0 ppid: 25490, pid: 25507, t: 1.9056s scanners: attach: 1.1.0 clamav: 0.86.2/m:33/d:1045 spam: 3.0.4 Received: from unknown (HELO ?192.168.100.179?) (rainer@ultra-secure.de@213.196.191.65) by bsd.ultra-secure.de with (DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA encrypted) SMTP; 26 Oct 2005 16:38:53 -0000 Message-ID: <435FB117.2030003@ultra-secure.de> Date: Wed, 26 Oct 2005 18:38:47 +0200 From: Rainer Duffner User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.6 (X11/20050716) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Wilko Bulte References: <139e33fd0505170202a18e7c0@mail.gmail.com> <435F9095.507@ultra-secure.de> <20051026145643.GA44296@freebie.xs4all.nl> In-Reply-To: <20051026145643.GA44296@freebie.xs4all.nl> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.0.4 (2005-06-05) on bsd.ultra-secure.de X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.4 required=7.5 tests=AWL,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.0.4 Cc: FreeBSD Current Subject: Re: FreeBSD on IBM blade servers 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: Wed, 26 Oct 2005 16:38:57 -0000 Wilko Bulte wrote: >On Wed, Oct 26, 2005 at 04:20:05PM +0200, Rainer Duffner wrote.. > > >>Arun Raman wrote: >> >> >> >>>Hi, >>> >>>Had anyone successfully installed FreeBSD (any version) on a IBM blade >>>server? >>> >>> >>> >>> >>I would love to run it on our LS 20 BladeCenter blades (Dual Core, Dual >>Opteron). >>But we don't have local disks, only SAN. >>And FreeBSD totally lacks multipathing and failover-support for the >>integrated Qlogic card (or just about any FC-card). >> >> > >FreeBSD happens to support most Qlogic based FC cards with the isp(4) >driver. > > > I know. It just happens that I see every LUN 4 times, due to the multipath configuration we have! Also, when I ran 5.4 on out BL20 blades, it liked to panic while rescanning the SCSI-bus (after adding some space to a LUN). cheers, Rainer