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Date:      Sat, 11 Feb 2012 23:55:51 +1100
From:      Jan Mikkelsen <janm@transactionware.com>
To:        Julian Elischer <julian@freebsd.org>
Cc:        FreeBSD Stable <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org>, jpaetzel@ixsystems.com, Jeremy Chadwick <freebsd@jdc.parodius.com>
Subject:   Re: known problems with 8.x and HP DL16 G5 server?
Message-ID:  <80227576-89AE-4831-8565-BED2323D2FFD@transactionware.com>
In-Reply-To: <4F36273E.9010805@freebsd.org>
References:  <4F343F2D.4040307@freebsd.org> <20120209215600.GA1793@icarus.home.lan> <4F345E84.8080307@freebsd.org> <20120210062411.GA9664@icarus.home.lan> <4F36273E.9010805@freebsd.org>

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On 11/02/2012, at 7:30 PM, Julian Elischer wrote:
>=20
> turns out that the HP machine has an HP branded (and with different =
firmware) raid controller
> that is not quite the same as the standard one. FreeBSD can't handle =
it and dies.
>=20
> Josh Paetzel may remember the exact type.. I forget..
>=20


I have some memory of HP DL160 servers with an embedded ciss(4) =
controller taking a long time to boot. I recall a delay of multiple =
minutes. I don't remember what I did to work around it.

Does it really stop, or is it just being slow?

Regards,

Jan.




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