FreeBSD 6.0 compat with DL320 G4

Sat Apr 29 20:37:56 UTC 2006

No, what happens if you configure it via rc.conf is the server
stays up for about a minute then panics, rather than panicing
immediately.

Perhaps if you e-mailed the bge maintainer and referenced the
PRs on the Ethernet, they might be willing to fix the driver.
Otherwise I'm going to look at it next week since I have one
of these servers and I can't return it. :-(  Another possibility
is installing another ethernet card in the server's expansion
slot.

Ted

>-----Original Message-----
>From: owner-freebsd-questions at freebsd.org
>[mailto:owner-freebsd-questions at freebsd.org]On Behalf Of William
>Sent: Saturday, April 29, 2006 9:47 AM
>To: Ted Mittelstaedt
>Cc: freebsd-questions at freebsd.org
>Subject: Re: FreeBSD 6.0 compat with DL320 G4
>
>
>Hi Ted,
>
>Thanks for the information regarding the Ethernet chipset, does the
>same thing happen if you configure the interface via rc.conf/ifconfig
>once the system is up and running?
>
>If the ethernet chipset support at the moment is flakey then I might
>have to look at a different vender, ethernet being one of the most
>important devices I need working for what I'm after! :(
>
>Cheers,
>
>Will
>
>On 29/04/06, Ted Mittelstaedt <tedm at toybox.placo.com> wrote:
>>
>> Hi William,
>>
>>   No.  Soren added a bunch of error checking code in the ata driver
>> for 6.1 to reject oddball cases and one of the things it does
>is ignore
>> the
>> disks on this particular server if the RAID functionality is turned
>> on in the BIOS.  However, even though FreeBSD 6.0 sees the
>disks if the
>> RAID setup is switched on in BIOS, it does not see the RAID array so
>> it is pretty much an error to have this BIOS option turned on.
>>
>>   Until support for the Adaptec metadata format is added, the
>> RAID firmware in this server is useless.
>>
>>   But you still can get RAID going on the server now by doing this:
>>
>> Turn off SATA Raid in the BIOS.  Install a scratch version of
>> FreeBSD.  Login as root issue the command "atacontrol create RAID1 ad4
>> ad6"
>> Immediately reboot.  Reinstall FreeBSD on disk "ar0"
>>
>> This will give you chipset RAID just you can't rebuild the array from
>> the BIOS.
>>
>> More importantly, though, is trouble with the Ethernet chipset.
>>
>> During the install it will ask if you want to configure the
>> Ethernet interface.  Do not do this.  If you do the system will
>> immediately panic.
>>
>> Once the system is up and running, recompile the kernel to use the
>> fix discussed in PR  kern/94307.  A discussion of how you might
>> go about implementing this fix is in PR kern/94863
>>
>> Unfortunately the bge maintainers) are very loath to believe that
>> they are going to have to make exceptions in their code for all
>> the different hacked up variants of this Ethernet chipset, but
>> in reviewing the PR database I suspect this is the case.
>>
>> Ted
>>
>> >-----Original Message-----
>> >From: owner-freebsd-questions at freebsd.org
>> >[mailto:owner-freebsd-questions at freebsd.org]On Behalf Of William
>> >Sent: Saturday, April 29, 2006 4:27 AM
>> >To: freebsd-questions at freebsd.org
>> >Subject: Re: FreeBSD 6.0 compat with DL320 G4
>> >
>> >
>> >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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