FreeBSD on IBM blade servers

[Rainer Duffner]

Wilko Bulte wrote:

>On Wed, Oct 26, 2005 at 04:20:05PM +0200, Rainer Duffner wrote..
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>>Arun Raman wrote:
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>>>Hi,
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>>>Had anyone successfully installed FreeBSD (any version) on a IBM blade 
>>>server?
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>>I would love to run it on our LS 20 BladeCenter blades (Dual Core, Dual
>>Opteron).
>>But we don't have local disks, only SAN.
>>And FreeBSD totally lacks multipathing and failover-support for the
>>integrated Qlogic card (or just about any FC-card).
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>FreeBSD happens to support most Qlogic based FC cards with the isp(4)
>driver.
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I know. It just happens that I see every LUN 4 times, due to the 
multipath configuration we have!
Also, when I ran 5.4 on out BL20 blades, it liked to panic while 
rescanning the SCSI-bus (after adding some space to a LUN).



cheers,
Rainer