first time with a 64bit CPU ... kernel config ...

[Marc G. Fournier]

On Thu, 12 Jan 2006, Vivek Khera wrote:

>
> On Jan 12, 2006, at 11:36 AM, Marc G. Fournier wrote:
>
>> First, the server is an HP DL360 G4P ... comes standard with 2G of RAM, 
>> 3.4G Xeon processor, HP Smart Array 600 RAID controller and slots for 4 SAS 
>> drives ... all in a 1U box.  I picked up 4x72G SAS drives, and an 
>> additional 4G of RAM (holds 6 sticks) ... oh, and it comes with redundant 
>> power supplies ...
>
> nice... I didn't know FreeBSD supported any SAS controllers.  I know that the 
> on in the Sun X4100 is not found by 6.0-REL boot CD

The ciss(4) driver is what the controller gets recognized as ... I believe 
that the RAID controller comes in both a SAS and SCSI model, so the 
controller itself handles the SAS aspect of it, and reports to the OS that 
its 'SCSI' ...

Just theory ... I just know it works :)  Even reports messages to 
/var/log/messages and the console (ie. when it finished building the 
parity stuff, I got a message letting me know that initialization was 
complete) ...

The thing I love about this box is that its an *even* # of drives, not odd 
... so I can actually do RAID1+0 instead of either RAID5 or RAID1+hot 
spare ...

I have to say ... I've used Intel boxes that I built myself, and I've used 
IBM x-series ... and to date, I don't think I've worked with a better box, 
especially where my last concern is the hardware ... at least so far, my 
experience with this HP has been much better then my last two Intel boxes 
...






----
Marc G. Fournier           Hub.Org Networking Services (http://www.hub.org)
Email: scrappy at hub.org           Yahoo!: yscrappy              ICQ: 7615664