Proliant 380 G4

[Oliver Fromme]

Palle Girgensohn <girgen at freebsd.org> wrote:
 > Just a quick check - a client is getting a Proliant 380 G4 with a "6i" Raid 
 > controller. Haven't used this hardware before. Will it work fine with 
 > FreeBSD? Which version will work best, 5.4 or 4.11? Any peculiarities or 
 > things to think about?
 > 
 > Any input appreciated!

It's not supported under 4.x:

pci2: <unknown card> (vendor=0x0e11, dev=0x0046) at 1.0 irq 5

At a customer of ours we're currently forced to run Linux
on the newer Proliants because of that problem (FreeBSD
5.x is currently not an option for that customer).

Best regards
   Oliver

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