FreeBSD 6.0 compat with DL320 G4

[William]

Ted,

Is that the same with FreeBSD 6.0-RELEASE?

Cheers,

Will

On 28/04/06, Ted Mittelstaedt <tedm at toybox.placo.com> wrote:
>
> No, but you must make sure to turn OFF raid in the BIOS
> settings or FreeBSD 6.1 will not recognize the drives.
>
> Ted
>
> >-----Original Message-----
> >From: owner-freebsd-questions at freebsd.org
> >[mailto:owner-freebsd-questions at freebsd.org]On Behalf Of William
> >Sent: Friday, April 28, 2006 12:05 AM
> >To: freebsd-questions at freebsd.org
> >Subject: Re: FreeBSD 6.0 compat with DL320 G4
> >
> >
> >Will this stop me using the drives without RAID?
> >
> >Regards,
> >
> >William
> >
> >On 28/04/06, Ted Mittelstaedt <tedm at 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 at freebsd.org
> >> >[mailto:owner-freebsd-questions at freebsd.org]On Behalf Of
> >> >No at SPAM@mgEDV.net
> >> >Sent: Thursday, April 27, 2006 5:38 AM
> >> >To: freebsd-questions at freebsd.org
> >> >Cc: willay at 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 :-)
> >> >
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