FreeBSD on IBM Blade Center?

[Jonathan Fosburgh]

On Wednesday 28 December 2005 07:32, Gestur A. Grjetarsson wrote:
> Hi
>
> I have IBM Blade with Qlogic 2312 adapters using DS400 SAN
>
> now I have learned that after over 10 years of good FreeBSD experience on
> various sorts of hardware, I can't use FreeBSD anymore as it does'nt work
> on IBM Blade. I have read alot on this problem trying to solve this problem
> and done alot of testing and hacking but without any progress.
>
> so I have two questions:
>
> is FreeBSD going to support IBM Blade?
>
> if it is going to support and work on IBM Blade, can you give me an
> estimation on when it will be ready to run on IBM Blade?

The blade center is a bizarre beast and it is difficult to make the officially 
supported Operating Systems work correctly with it.  We had difficulties 
making AIX work properly on the JS20 blade, for instance.  With IBM hardware, 
it is best to stick with officially supported products.  Sometimes, IBM 
doesn't support something for a reason...

I would be (pleasantly) surprised to laern you were able to attach FreeBSD to 
IBM storage.  Of course, IBM will provide you with no help in either of 
these, and I wouldn't venture to guess if you can do concurrent maintenance 
on your DS4000 with FreeBSD running.

-- 
Jonathan Fosburgh
AIX and Storage Administrator
UT MD Anderson Cancer Center
Houston, TX 
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