From owner-freebsd-hardware Fri Aug 17 7:20:14 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from cvrc.mgh.harvard.edu (cvrc.mgh.harvard.edu [132.183.120.19]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7142C37B405 for ; Fri, 17 Aug 2001 07:20:08 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from delgado@cvrc.mgh.harvard.edu) Received: from [132.183.120.26] (cvrc-monet.mgh.harvard.edu [132.183.120.26]) by cvrc.mgh.harvard.edu (8.11.3/8.11.3) with ESMTP id f7HEK7E66366 for ; Fri, 17 Aug 2001 10:20:07 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from delgado@cvrc.mgh.harvard.edu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: Date: Fri, 17 Aug 2001 10:20:01 -0400 To: hardware@FreeBSD.org From: Jonathan Delgado Subject: SCA backplane Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org I am considering a Supermicro 6040G "SuperServer" as the base for a new system that I need to build. The hardware seems pretty swank, and one of its features is 4 hot-plug (same as hot-swap?) U160 SCA bays/backplane with a QLogic GEM354 management controller. I have built many systems before, but this is the first time I would have ever used a SCSI backplane. So if anyone has had any experience with them (or like products) I have a couple questions: Is this an item that should behave transparently to FreeBSD? For the hot-swap ability, should I be able to do this functionally under FreeBSD with a live system? -- Jonathan Delgado Massachusetts General Hospital delgado@cvrc.mgh.harvard.edu Cardiovascular Research Center Systems Manager To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message