Date: Fri, 28 Apr 2006 08:05:14 +0100 From: William <willay@gmail.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD 6.0 compat with DL320 G4 Message-ID: <a24358fb0604280005s74e86f8ct4641e8c62b8b12f0@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <LOBBIFDAGNMAMLGJJCKNIENCFDAA.tedm@toybox.placo.com> References: <000501c669f7$696b5c00$dededede@avalon.lan> <LOBBIFDAGNMAMLGJJCKNIENCFDAA.tedm@toybox.placo.com>
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Will this stop me using the drives without RAID? Regards, William On 28/04/06, Ted Mittelstaedt <tedm@toybox.placo.com> wrote: > RAID support on the DL320 G4 is broken. HP uses Adaptec > firmware and Adaptec has not provided Soren programming info > on their metadata format, as he requested. > > Ted > > >-----Original Message----- > >From: owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > >[mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org]On Behalf Of > >No@SPAM@mgEDV.net > >Sent: Thursday, April 27, 2006 5:38 AM > >To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > >Cc: willay@gmail.com > >Subject: RE: FreeBSD 6.0 compat with DL320 G4 > > > > > > > >> Our vendor preference is HP, if anyone could share their experience > >> with the following products (in regards of network/sata support and > >> anything else mentioning): > >> > >> HP DL140 G2 > >> HP DL145 G2 > >> HP DL320 G4 > >> HP DL360 G4 > > > >we tried dl320 g2, g3, g4, dl380 g3 with sata/ciss drives, > >1-4gb ram, P4/XEON, DUAL-XEON with freebsd 5 and 6. > >as of the *bsd's, freebsd has the best support for the > >hp DL*s. sata support is not given for all embedded raid- > >controllers but you can still use raid 1 functionality > >using raidctl. hdd failures can render the system hang for > >3-5sec's on sata devices but after this timeout, everything's > >fine. rebuild is sometimes only possible by os-command, pluggin' > >in the new drive is sometimes not enough ;-) > > > >nw/chipset support is working (at least on all machines we use). > >no performance issues, except you configure as router and you use > >many different irq's for all interfaces (only occurred on a machine > >with 8 interfaces). > > > >thermal zone / ipmi support is not really > >close to the vendors ideas and sometimes produces wrong > >numbers, but if you don't want to set fan-speed or check > >temp. on all mentioned devices, it's fine. > > > >also, system management like (red-power fail, red-fan fail, etc...) > >is not really talking to the os and vice versa, therefore you'll > >have to check for errors like this on your own. > > > >furthermore, bios/fw upgrades can sometimes be really annoying, > >if you don't have usb-boot-support you'd run into troubles because > >hp only delivers them for some specific os's and freebsd is not on > >the list. > > > >btw. if somebody reads this and thinks: hey, bullshit i know a way > >of doing this better and it works fine with my DL, please let me > >know! > > > >best regards and good luck w. the hw :-) > > > >_______________________________________________ > >freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > >http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > >To unsubscribe, send any mail to > >"freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > > > >-- > >No virus found in this incoming message. > >Checked by AVG Free Edition. > >Version: 7.1.385 / Virus Database: 268.5.0/325 - Release Date: 4/26/2006 > > > >
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