DL 380/G5 with P400 smartarray

[Josef Grosch]

Ennio Pozzetti wrote:
> We are interesting in running Freebsd on a DL380/G5 with P400 Smartarray 
> SAS controller.
> 
> There is no P400 support on freebsd 6.1 hardware list, but we noticed 
> that on the driver ciss.c revision 1.64.2.3 2006/05/10 (6.1 STABLE) 
> looks like there is support for P400 and P400i.
> Does anyone succeeded at running 6.1 STABLE on DL380/G5 with P400 support ?
> 
> regards
> 

You should forward this to freebsd-proliant at freebsd.org.

I've got a couple of DL380/G5 machines that are very happy running 
FreeBSD 6.X. One of them I know has a P400 Smartarray SAS controller. It 
seems to work pretty well. My only problem so far is that a kernel with 
PAE panics when it tries to initialize the Broadcom network device. My 
options then became

1) run without PAE and only use 4Gig of memory instead of the full 16

2) install another ether device and comment out the Broadcom device

3) install the AMD64 version of FreeBSD which does not need PAE to see 
all the memory.


Josef

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