From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Oct 26 17:59:20 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 087DA16A41F for ; Wed, 26 Oct 2005 17:59:20 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from wb@freebie.xs4all.nl) Received: from smtp-vbr15.xs4all.nl (smtp-vbr15.xs4all.nl [194.109.24.35]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5E37D43D48 for ; Wed, 26 Oct 2005 17:59:18 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from wb@freebie.xs4all.nl) Received: from freebie.xs4all.nl (freebie.xs4all.nl [213.84.32.253]) by smtp-vbr15.xs4all.nl (8.13.3/8.13.3) with ESMTP id j9QHxH9J023572; Wed, 26 Oct 2005 19:59:17 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from wb@freebie.xs4all.nl) Received: from freebie.xs4all.nl (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by freebie.xs4all.nl (8.13.4/8.13.3) with ESMTP id j9QHxGGV045162; Wed, 26 Oct 2005 19:59:16 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from wb@freebie.xs4all.nl) Received: (from wb@localhost) by freebie.xs4all.nl (8.13.4/8.13.1/Submit) id j9QHxGjC045161; Wed, 26 Oct 2005 19:59:16 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from wb) Date: Wed, 26 Oct 2005 19:59:16 +0200 From: Wilko Bulte To: Rainer Duffner Message-ID: <20051026175916.GB45100@freebie.xs4all.nl> References: <139e33fd0505170202a18e7c0@mail.gmail.com> <435F9095.507@ultra-secure.de> <20051026145643.GA44296@freebie.xs4all.nl> <435FB117.2030003@ultra-secure.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <435FB117.2030003@ultra-secure.de> X-OS: FreeBSD 6.0-RC1 User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.9i X-Virus-Scanned: by XS4ALL Virus Scanner 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 17:59:20 -0000 On Wed, Oct 26, 2005 at 06:38:47PM +0200, Rainer Duffner wrote.. > 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! Maybe you can zone the fabric such that the HBA only sees one path to the storage? > 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). THat is one of the things I still have to try, FreeBSD on our BL20pG2 -- Wilko Bulte wilko@FreeBSD.org