Re: FreeBSD 6.0 compat with DL320 G4
If it works then let it alone. What model of PT card did you get? The single-port one? Ted - Original Message - From: William [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Ted Mittelstaedt [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Antony Mawer [EMAIL PROTECTED]; freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Sent: Wednesday, July 05, 2006 11:26 PM Subject: Re: FreeBSD 6.0 compat with DL320 G4 Thanks Ted, Server got here, FreeBSD 6.1 went on easy as you like and then I installed the intel card when it got here... I havent had to recompile a thing and its detected the card fine. I've appied an IP address, cvsup/install a few ports without any issues.. dmesg goodness: em0: Intel(R) PRO/1000 Network Connection Version - 3.2.18 port 0x4000-0x401f mem 0xfdee-0xfdef,0xfdec-0xfded irq 16 at device 0.0 on pci2 em0: Ethernet address: 00:15:17:0b:e6:18 em1: Intel(R) PRO/1000 Network Connection Version - 3.2.18 port 0x4020-0x403f mem 0xfdea-0xfdeb,0xfde8-0xfde9 irq 17 at device 0.1 on pci2 em1: Ethernet address: 00:15:17:0b:e6:19 Should I grab the latest copy of the driver (off intel's website) and recompile anyway? Cheers, Will On 06/07/06, Ted Mittelstaedt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Go here: http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/src/sys/dev/em/ click on the file you want. You will probably need all the files there other than LICENSE and README right-click download, save to disk, copy to your running freebsd system, from that system copy to freebsd-formatted floppy disk, unmount floppy disk, take disk to dl320, mount disk, copy to /usr/src/sys/dev/em/ and recompile the kernel. Ted - Original Message - From: William [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Ted Mittelstaedt [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Antony Mawer [EMAIL PROTECTED]; freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Sent: Tuesday, July 04, 2006 2:47 AM Subject: Re: FreeBSD 6.0 compat with DL320 G4 Ted, Apoligises for being difficult, I must be suffering from my super early mornings and information overload. Thank you for explaining it, my dealer has picked up on the fact that I'll require the PT instead of MT card that I suggested. Thanks again for your help, what would be the best way of grabbing the latest driver for em for the 1000PT card? Regards, Will On 04/07/06, Ted Mittelstaedt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I think your trying to second-guess very simple instructions and making things very hard for yourself. I'll try to explain one last time then I'll throw my hands up in the air The HP DL320 G4 slots, whether PCI-X or PCI Express, to be accessible, MUST USE A RISER CARD. HP has TWO different riser cards available. BOTH riser cards have TWO slots, a half-height and a full height. The first riser card has a half-height PCI-Express slot, and a full-height PCI Express slot. This is the riser card that is supplied by the factory and it comes with the server. The second riser card is OPTIONAL and it contains a half-height PCI-Express slot and a full-height PCI-X slot. It REPLACES the factory-supplied riser card, if you use it. The Intel MT card is a PCI-X card. It will not fit in a PCI Express slot. It works with FBSD 6.1 The Intel PT card is a PCI Express card. It will not fit in a PCI-X slot. It does not work with FBSD 6.1 unless you load the driver. You can either do ONE of the following: 1) Use the Intel MT card with the optional HP PCI-X riser card. This works out of box with FBSD 6.1 2) Use the Intel PT card with the HP riser card that ships with the server. This DOES NOT work out of the box with FBSD 6.1 You MUST load the current driver for this to work. You CANNOT USE the MT card with the riser card that ships with the server. You CANNOT use a low-profile PCI-X card because the optional PCI-X riser card DOES NOT HAVE a low profile PCI-X slot. It has a standard height PCI-X slot ONLY. Incidentally the fact that your HP dealer cannot apparently explain this to you pretty much means YOUR HP DEALER SUCKS THE BIG WEENIE. Ted - Original Message - From: William [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Ted Mittelstaedt [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Antony Mawer [EMAIL PROTECTED]; freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Sent: Monday, July 03, 2006 11:05 PM Subject: Re: FreeBSD 6.0 compat with DL320 G4 Ok, I think its best I just order a Intel MT card with the low profile PCI-X adapter instead of flapping about with these riser cards and then just use 6-stable. All getting quite confusing. On 04/07/06, Ted Mittelstaedt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Correct, it will not fit - unless you order the PCI-X riser card from HP and replace the PCI-Express riser card that ships with the 320 with the PCI-X riser card
Re: FreeBSD 6.0 compat with DL320 G4
dual port. Regards, Will On 07/07/06, Ted Mittelstaedt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If it works then let it alone. What model of PT card did you get? The single-port one? Ted - Original Message - From: William [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Ted Mittelstaedt [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Antony Mawer [EMAIL PROTECTED]; freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Sent: Wednesday, July 05, 2006 11:26 PM Subject: Re: FreeBSD 6.0 compat with DL320 G4 Thanks Ted, Server got here, FreeBSD 6.1 went on easy as you like and then I installed the intel card when it got here... I havent had to recompile a thing and its detected the card fine. I've appied an IP address, cvsup/install a few ports without any issues.. dmesg goodness: em0: Intel(R) PRO/1000 Network Connection Version - 3.2.18 port 0x4000-0x401f mem 0xfdee-0xfdef,0xfdec-0xfded irq 16 at device 0.0 on pci2 em0: Ethernet address: 00:15:17:0b:e6:18 em1: Intel(R) PRO/1000 Network Connection Version - 3.2.18 port 0x4020-0x403f mem 0xfdea-0xfdeb,0xfde8-0xfde9 irq 17 at device 0.1 on pci2 em1: Ethernet address: 00:15:17:0b:e6:19 Should I grab the latest copy of the driver (off intel's website) and recompile anyway? Cheers, Will On 06/07/06, Ted Mittelstaedt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Go here: http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/src/sys/dev/em/ click on the file you want. You will probably need all the files there other than LICENSE and README right-click download, save to disk, copy to your running freebsd system, from that system copy to freebsd-formatted floppy disk, unmount floppy disk, take disk to dl320, mount disk, copy to /usr/src/sys/dev/em/ and recompile the kernel. Ted - Original Message - From: William [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Ted Mittelstaedt [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Antony Mawer [EMAIL PROTECTED]; freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Sent: Tuesday, July 04, 2006 2:47 AM Subject: Re: FreeBSD 6.0 compat with DL320 G4 Ted, Apoligises for being difficult, I must be suffering from my super early mornings and information overload. Thank you for explaining it, my dealer has picked up on the fact that I'll require the PT instead of MT card that I suggested. Thanks again for your help, what would be the best way of grabbing the latest driver for em for the 1000PT card? Regards, Will On 04/07/06, Ted Mittelstaedt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I think your trying to second-guess very simple instructions and making things very hard for yourself. I'll try to explain one last time then I'll throw my hands up in the air The HP DL320 G4 slots, whether PCI-X or PCI Express, to be accessible, MUST USE A RISER CARD. HP has TWO different riser cards available. BOTH riser cards have TWO slots, a half-height and a full height. The first riser card has a half-height PCI-Express slot, and a full-height PCI Express slot. This is the riser card that is supplied by the factory and it comes with the server. The second riser card is OPTIONAL and it contains a half-height PCI-Express slot and a full-height PCI-X slot. It REPLACES the factory-supplied riser card, if you use it. The Intel MT card is a PCI-X card. It will not fit in a PCI Express slot. It works with FBSD 6.1 The Intel PT card is a PCI Express card. It will not fit in a PCI-X slot. It does not work with FBSD 6.1 unless you load the driver. You can either do ONE of the following: 1) Use the Intel MT card with the optional HP PCI-X riser card. This works out of box with FBSD 6.1 2) Use the Intel PT card with the HP riser card that ships with the server. This DOES NOT work out of the box with FBSD 6.1 You MUST load the current driver for this to work. You CANNOT USE the MT card with the riser card that ships with the server. You CANNOT use a low-profile PCI-X card because the optional PCI-X riser card DOES NOT HAVE a low profile PCI-X slot. It has a standard height PCI-X slot ONLY. Incidentally the fact that your HP dealer cannot apparently explain this to you pretty much means YOUR HP DEALER SUCKS THE BIG WEENIE. Ted - Original Message - From: William [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Ted Mittelstaedt [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Antony Mawer [EMAIL PROTECTED]; freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Sent: Monday, July 03, 2006 11:05 PM Subject: Re: FreeBSD 6.0 compat with DL320 G4 Ok, I think its best I just order a Intel MT card with the low profile PCI-X adapter instead of flapping about with these riser cards and then just use 6-stable. All getting quite confusing. On 04/07/06, Ted Mittelstaedt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Correct, it will not fit - unless you order the PCI-X riser card from HP and replace
Re: FreeBSD 6.0 compat with DL320 G4
Go here: http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/src/sys/dev/em/ click on the file you want. You will probably need all the files there other than LICENSE and README right-click download, save to disk, copy to your running freebsd system, from that system copy to freebsd-formatted floppy disk, unmount floppy disk, take disk to dl320, mount disk, copy to /usr/src/sys/dev/em/ and recompile the kernel. Ted - Original Message - From: William [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Ted Mittelstaedt [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Antony Mawer [EMAIL PROTECTED]; freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Sent: Tuesday, July 04, 2006 2:47 AM Subject: Re: FreeBSD 6.0 compat with DL320 G4 Ted, Apoligises for being difficult, I must be suffering from my super early mornings and information overload. Thank you for explaining it, my dealer has picked up on the fact that I'll require the PT instead of MT card that I suggested. Thanks again for your help, what would be the best way of grabbing the latest driver for em for the 1000PT card? Regards, Will On 04/07/06, Ted Mittelstaedt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I think your trying to second-guess very simple instructions and making things very hard for yourself. I'll try to explain one last time then I'll throw my hands up in the air The HP DL320 G4 slots, whether PCI-X or PCI Express, to be accessible, MUST USE A RISER CARD. HP has TWO different riser cards available. BOTH riser cards have TWO slots, a half-height and a full height. The first riser card has a half-height PCI-Express slot, and a full-height PCI Express slot. This is the riser card that is supplied by the factory and it comes with the server. The second riser card is OPTIONAL and it contains a half-height PCI-Express slot and a full-height PCI-X slot. It REPLACES the factory-supplied riser card, if you use it. The Intel MT card is a PCI-X card. It will not fit in a PCI Express slot. It works with FBSD 6.1 The Intel PT card is a PCI Express card. It will not fit in a PCI-X slot. It does not work with FBSD 6.1 unless you load the driver. You can either do ONE of the following: 1) Use the Intel MT card with the optional HP PCI-X riser card. This works out of box with FBSD 6.1 2) Use the Intel PT card with the HP riser card that ships with the server. This DOES NOT work out of the box with FBSD 6.1 You MUST load the current driver for this to work. You CANNOT USE the MT card with the riser card that ships with the server. You CANNOT use a low-profile PCI-X card because the optional PCI-X riser card DOES NOT HAVE a low profile PCI-X slot. It has a standard height PCI-X slot ONLY. Incidentally the fact that your HP dealer cannot apparently explain this to you pretty much means YOUR HP DEALER SUCKS THE BIG WEENIE. Ted - Original Message - From: William [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Ted Mittelstaedt [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Antony Mawer [EMAIL PROTECTED]; freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Sent: Monday, July 03, 2006 11:05 PM Subject: Re: FreeBSD 6.0 compat with DL320 G4 Ok, I think its best I just order a Intel MT card with the low profile PCI-X adapter instead of flapping about with these riser cards and then just use 6-stable. All getting quite confusing. On 04/07/06, Ted Mittelstaedt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Correct, it will not fit - unless you order the PCI-X riser card from HP and replace the PCI-Express riser card that ships with the 320 with the PCI-X riser card. Ted - Original Message - From: William [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Antony Mawer [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Ted Mittelstaedt [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, July 03, 2006 10:56 AM Subject: Re: FreeBSD 6.0 compat with DL320 G4 Did you guys say the card I've got in another box wont fit into a 320? On 03/07/06, Antony Mawer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 29/06/2006 9:27 PM, Erik Trulsson wrote: On Fri, Jun 30, 2006 at 07:56:00AM +0100, William wrote: Antony, I've got an Intel card in production already on a homebrew box, the code is INTEL-PWLA8492MT and description is Intel Dual Port Server Adapter 10/100/1000. Any idea if that will do? That is a PRO/1000 MT card, which is a PCI-X adapter and is supported by the standard em(4) driver in FreeBSD 6.x, The PRO/1000 PT mentioned below is a PCI-Express adapter and is not supported by the standard driver in 6.x, but (as mentioned) should be supported by the driver available from Intel. If you wish to utilise the PCI Express expansion slots by using a Pro/1000 PT network adapter, the procedure to follow might be something like be this: 1. Install 6.1-RELEASE from CD, being sure to install the kernel source 2. Obtain the latest Intel
Re: FreeBSD 6.0 compat with DL320 G4
Thanks Ted, Server got here, FreeBSD 6.1 went on easy as you like and then I installed the intel card when it got here... I havent had to recompile a thing and its detected the card fine. I've appied an IP address, cvsup/install a few ports without any issues.. dmesg goodness: em0: Intel(R) PRO/1000 Network Connection Version - 3.2.18 port 0x4000-0x401f mem 0xfdee-0xfdef,0xfdec-0xfded irq 16 at device 0.0 on pci2 em0: Ethernet address: 00:15:17:0b:e6:18 em1: Intel(R) PRO/1000 Network Connection Version - 3.2.18 port 0x4020-0x403f mem 0xfdea-0xfdeb,0xfde8-0xfde9 irq 17 at device 0.1 on pci2 em1: Ethernet address: 00:15:17:0b:e6:19 Should I grab the latest copy of the driver (off intel's website) and recompile anyway? Cheers, Will On 06/07/06, Ted Mittelstaedt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Go here: http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/src/sys/dev/em/ click on the file you want. You will probably need all the files there other than LICENSE and README right-click download, save to disk, copy to your running freebsd system, from that system copy to freebsd-formatted floppy disk, unmount floppy disk, take disk to dl320, mount disk, copy to /usr/src/sys/dev/em/ and recompile the kernel. Ted - Original Message - From: William [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Ted Mittelstaedt [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Antony Mawer [EMAIL PROTECTED]; freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Sent: Tuesday, July 04, 2006 2:47 AM Subject: Re: FreeBSD 6.0 compat with DL320 G4 Ted, Apoligises for being difficult, I must be suffering from my super early mornings and information overload. Thank you for explaining it, my dealer has picked up on the fact that I'll require the PT instead of MT card that I suggested. Thanks again for your help, what would be the best way of grabbing the latest driver for em for the 1000PT card? Regards, Will On 04/07/06, Ted Mittelstaedt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I think your trying to second-guess very simple instructions and making things very hard for yourself. I'll try to explain one last time then I'll throw my hands up in the air The HP DL320 G4 slots, whether PCI-X or PCI Express, to be accessible, MUST USE A RISER CARD. HP has TWO different riser cards available. BOTH riser cards have TWO slots, a half-height and a full height. The first riser card has a half-height PCI-Express slot, and a full-height PCI Express slot. This is the riser card that is supplied by the factory and it comes with the server. The second riser card is OPTIONAL and it contains a half-height PCI-Express slot and a full-height PCI-X slot. It REPLACES the factory-supplied riser card, if you use it. The Intel MT card is a PCI-X card. It will not fit in a PCI Express slot. It works with FBSD 6.1 The Intel PT card is a PCI Express card. It will not fit in a PCI-X slot. It does not work with FBSD 6.1 unless you load the driver. You can either do ONE of the following: 1) Use the Intel MT card with the optional HP PCI-X riser card. This works out of box with FBSD 6.1 2) Use the Intel PT card with the HP riser card that ships with the server. This DOES NOT work out of the box with FBSD 6.1 You MUST load the current driver for this to work. You CANNOT USE the MT card with the riser card that ships with the server. You CANNOT use a low-profile PCI-X card because the optional PCI-X riser card DOES NOT HAVE a low profile PCI-X slot. It has a standard height PCI-X slot ONLY. Incidentally the fact that your HP dealer cannot apparently explain this to you pretty much means YOUR HP DEALER SUCKS THE BIG WEENIE. Ted - Original Message - From: William [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Ted Mittelstaedt [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Antony Mawer [EMAIL PROTECTED]; freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Sent: Monday, July 03, 2006 11:05 PM Subject: Re: FreeBSD 6.0 compat with DL320 G4 Ok, I think its best I just order a Intel MT card with the low profile PCI-X adapter instead of flapping about with these riser cards and then just use 6-stable. All getting quite confusing. On 04/07/06, Ted Mittelstaedt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Correct, it will not fit - unless you order the PCI-X riser card from HP and replace the PCI-Express riser card that ships with the 320 with the PCI-X riser card. Ted - Original Message - From: William [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Antony Mawer [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Ted Mittelstaedt [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, July 03, 2006 10:56 AM Subject: Re: FreeBSD 6.0 compat with DL320 G4 Did you guys say the card I've got in another box wont fit into a 320? On 03/07/06, Antony Mawer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 29/06/2006 9:27 PM, Erik Trulsson wrote: On Fri, Jun 30, 2006 at 07:56:00AM +0100, William wrote: Antony, I've got
Re: FreeBSD 6.0 compat with DL320 G4
On 6/07/2006 4:26 PM, William wrote: Server got here, FreeBSD 6.1 went on easy as you like and then I installed the intel card when it got here... I havent had to recompile a thing and its detected the card fine. I've appied an IP address, cvsup/install a few ports without any issues.. dmesg goodness: em0: Intel(R) PRO/1000 Network Connection Version - 3.2.18 port 0x4000-0x401f mem 0xfdee-0xfdef,0xfdec-0xfded irq 16 at device 0.0 on pci2 em0: Ethernet address: 00:15:17:0b:e6:18 em1: Intel(R) PRO/1000 Network Connection Version - 3.2.18 port 0x4020-0x403f mem 0xfdea-0xfdeb,0xfde8-0xfde9 irq 17 at device 0.1 on pci2 em1: Ethernet address: 00:15:17:0b:e6:19 Should I grab the latest copy of the driver (off intel's website) and recompile anyway? It sounds like you were lucky with your card -- we tried a 6.1 installation and it did not detect our Intel Pro/1000PT card, while the 7-CURRENT driver did. A back-port of the 7-CURRENT driver looked relatively non-trivial, but the Intel driver for 6.x saved the day. If it's all working properly, then you should be right to continue with the 6.1 driver you are currently using. If it ain't broke, don't fix it! Cheers Antony ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: FreeBSD 6.0 compat with DL320 G4
Ok, I think its best I just order a Intel MT card with the low profile PCI-X adapter instead of flapping about with these riser cards and then just use 6-stable. All getting quite confusing. On 04/07/06, Ted Mittelstaedt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Correct, it will not fit - unless you order the PCI-X riser card from HP and replace the PCI-Express riser card that ships with the 320 with the PCI-X riser card. Ted - Original Message - From: William [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Antony Mawer [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Ted Mittelstaedt [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, July 03, 2006 10:56 AM Subject: Re: FreeBSD 6.0 compat with DL320 G4 Did you guys say the card I've got in another box wont fit into a 320? On 03/07/06, Antony Mawer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 29/06/2006 9:27 PM, Erik Trulsson wrote: On Fri, Jun 30, 2006 at 07:56:00AM +0100, William wrote: Antony, I've got an Intel card in production already on a homebrew box, the code is INTEL-PWLA8492MT and description is Intel Dual Port Server Adapter 10/100/1000. Any idea if that will do? That is a PRO/1000 MT card, which is a PCI-X adapter and is supported by the standard em(4) driver in FreeBSD 6.x, The PRO/1000 PT mentioned below is a PCI-Express adapter and is not supported by the standard driver in 6.x, but (as mentioned) should be supported by the driver available from Intel. If you wish to utilise the PCI Express expansion slots by using a Pro/1000 PT network adapter, the procedure to follow might be something like be this: 1. Install 6.1-RELEASE from CD, being sure to install the kernel source 2. Obtain the latest Intel driver for FreeBSD 6.x (if it is still not available on the website, email me and I will send it to you) 3. Burn the driver onto a CD or other media and copy it onto the server 4. Extract the driver source, and copy the if_em* files across into /usr/src/sys/dev/em/ 5. Build a new kernel (GENERIC will suffice) which will utilise the new driver source (cd /usr/src make buildkernel) 6. Install the kernel and reboot (make installkernel) You should now have a working network with your Pro/1000 PT... Regards Antony ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: FreeBSD 6.0 compat with DL320 G4
I think your trying to second-guess very simple instructions and making things very hard for yourself. I'll try to explain one last time then I'll throw my hands up in the air The HP DL320 G4 slots, whether PCI-X or PCI Express, to be accessible, MUST USE A RISER CARD. HP has TWO different riser cards available. BOTH riser cards have TWO slots, a half-height and a full height. The first riser card has a half-height PCI-Express slot, and a full-height PCI Express slot. This is the riser card that is supplied by the factory and it comes with the server. The second riser card is OPTIONAL and it contains a half-height PCI-Express slot and a full-height PCI-X slot. It REPLACES the factory-supplied riser card, if you use it. The Intel MT card is a PCI-X card. It will not fit in a PCI Express slot. It works with FBSD 6.1 The Intel PT card is a PCI Express card. It will not fit in a PCI-X slot. It does not work with FBSD 6.1 unless you load the driver. You can either do ONE of the following: 1) Use the Intel MT card with the optional HP PCI-X riser card. This works out of box with FBSD 6.1 2) Use the Intel PT card with the HP riser card that ships with the server. This DOES NOT work out of the box with FBSD 6.1 You MUST load the current driver for this to work. You CANNOT USE the MT card with the riser card that ships with the server. You CANNOT use a low-profile PCI-X card because the optional PCI-X riser card DOES NOT HAVE a low profile PCI-X slot. It has a standard height PCI-X slot ONLY. Incidentally the fact that your HP dealer cannot apparently explain this to you pretty much means YOUR HP DEALER SUCKS THE BIG WEENIE. Ted - Original Message - From: William [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Ted Mittelstaedt [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Antony Mawer [EMAIL PROTECTED]; freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Sent: Monday, July 03, 2006 11:05 PM Subject: Re: FreeBSD 6.0 compat with DL320 G4 Ok, I think its best I just order a Intel MT card with the low profile PCI-X adapter instead of flapping about with these riser cards and then just use 6-stable. All getting quite confusing. On 04/07/06, Ted Mittelstaedt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Correct, it will not fit - unless you order the PCI-X riser card from HP and replace the PCI-Express riser card that ships with the 320 with the PCI-X riser card. Ted - Original Message - From: William [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Antony Mawer [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Ted Mittelstaedt [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, July 03, 2006 10:56 AM Subject: Re: FreeBSD 6.0 compat with DL320 G4 Did you guys say the card I've got in another box wont fit into a 320? On 03/07/06, Antony Mawer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 29/06/2006 9:27 PM, Erik Trulsson wrote: On Fri, Jun 30, 2006 at 07:56:00AM +0100, William wrote: Antony, I've got an Intel card in production already on a homebrew box, the code is INTEL-PWLA8492MT and description is Intel Dual Port Server Adapter 10/100/1000. Any idea if that will do? That is a PRO/1000 MT card, which is a PCI-X adapter and is supported by the standard em(4) driver in FreeBSD 6.x, The PRO/1000 PT mentioned below is a PCI-Express adapter and is not supported by the standard driver in 6.x, but (as mentioned) should be supported by the driver available from Intel. If you wish to utilise the PCI Express expansion slots by using a Pro/1000 PT network adapter, the procedure to follow might be something like be this: 1. Install 6.1-RELEASE from CD, being sure to install the kernel source 2. Obtain the latest Intel driver for FreeBSD 6.x (if it is still not available on the website, email me and I will send it to you) 3. Burn the driver onto a CD or other media and copy it onto the server 4. Extract the driver source, and copy the if_em* files across into /usr/src/sys/dev/em/ 5. Build a new kernel (GENERIC will suffice) which will utilise the new driver source (cd /usr/src make buildkernel) 6. Install the kernel and reboot (make installkernel) You should now have a working network with your Pro/1000 PT... Regards Antony ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: FreeBSD 6.0 compat with DL320 G4
Ted, Apoligises for being difficult, I must be suffering from my super early mornings and information overload. Thank you for explaining it, my dealer has picked up on the fact that I'll require the PT instead of MT card that I suggested. Thanks again for your help, what would be the best way of grabbing the latest driver for em for the 1000PT card? Regards, Will On 04/07/06, Ted Mittelstaedt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I think your trying to second-guess very simple instructions and making things very hard for yourself. I'll try to explain one last time then I'll throw my hands up in the air The HP DL320 G4 slots, whether PCI-X or PCI Express, to be accessible, MUST USE A RISER CARD. HP has TWO different riser cards available. BOTH riser cards have TWO slots, a half-height and a full height. The first riser card has a half-height PCI-Express slot, and a full-height PCI Express slot. This is the riser card that is supplied by the factory and it comes with the server. The second riser card is OPTIONAL and it contains a half-height PCI-Express slot and a full-height PCI-X slot. It REPLACES the factory-supplied riser card, if you use it. The Intel MT card is a PCI-X card. It will not fit in a PCI Express slot. It works with FBSD 6.1 The Intel PT card is a PCI Express card. It will not fit in a PCI-X slot. It does not work with FBSD 6.1 unless you load the driver. You can either do ONE of the following: 1) Use the Intel MT card with the optional HP PCI-X riser card. This works out of box with FBSD 6.1 2) Use the Intel PT card with the HP riser card that ships with the server. This DOES NOT work out of the box with FBSD 6.1 You MUST load the current driver for this to work. You CANNOT USE the MT card with the riser card that ships with the server. You CANNOT use a low-profile PCI-X card because the optional PCI-X riser card DOES NOT HAVE a low profile PCI-X slot. It has a standard height PCI-X slot ONLY. Incidentally the fact that your HP dealer cannot apparently explain this to you pretty much means YOUR HP DEALER SUCKS THE BIG WEENIE. Ted - Original Message - From: William [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Ted Mittelstaedt [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Antony Mawer [EMAIL PROTECTED]; freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Sent: Monday, July 03, 2006 11:05 PM Subject: Re: FreeBSD 6.0 compat with DL320 G4 Ok, I think its best I just order a Intel MT card with the low profile PCI-X adapter instead of flapping about with these riser cards and then just use 6-stable. All getting quite confusing. On 04/07/06, Ted Mittelstaedt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Correct, it will not fit - unless you order the PCI-X riser card from HP and replace the PCI-Express riser card that ships with the 320 with the PCI-X riser card. Ted - Original Message - From: William [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Antony Mawer [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Ted Mittelstaedt [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, July 03, 2006 10:56 AM Subject: Re: FreeBSD 6.0 compat with DL320 G4 Did you guys say the card I've got in another box wont fit into a 320? On 03/07/06, Antony Mawer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 29/06/2006 9:27 PM, Erik Trulsson wrote: On Fri, Jun 30, 2006 at 07:56:00AM +0100, William wrote: Antony, I've got an Intel card in production already on a homebrew box, the code is INTEL-PWLA8492MT and description is Intel Dual Port Server Adapter 10/100/1000. Any idea if that will do? That is a PRO/1000 MT card, which is a PCI-X adapter and is supported by the standard em(4) driver in FreeBSD 6.x, The PRO/1000 PT mentioned below is a PCI-Express adapter and is not supported by the standard driver in 6.x, but (as mentioned) should be supported by the driver available from Intel. If you wish to utilise the PCI Express expansion slots by using a Pro/1000 PT network adapter, the procedure to follow might be something like be this: 1. Install 6.1-RELEASE from CD, being sure to install the kernel source 2. Obtain the latest Intel driver for FreeBSD 6.x (if it is still not available on the website, email me and I will send it to you) 3. Burn the driver onto a CD or other media and copy it onto the server 4. Extract the driver source, and copy the if_em* files across into /usr/src/sys/dev/em/ 5. Build a new kernel (GENERIC will suffice) which will utilise the new driver source (cd /usr/src make buildkernel) 6. Install the kernel and reboot (make installkernel) You should now have a working network with your Pro/1000 PT... Regards Antony ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Re: FreeBSD 6.0 compat with DL320 G4
Did you guys say the card I've got in another box wont fit into a 320? On 03/07/06, Antony Mawer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 29/06/2006 9:27 PM, Erik Trulsson wrote: On Fri, Jun 30, 2006 at 07:56:00AM +0100, William wrote: Antony, I've got an Intel card in production already on a homebrew box, the code is INTEL-PWLA8492MT and description is Intel Dual Port Server Adapter 10/100/1000. Any idea if that will do? That is a PRO/1000 MT card, which is a PCI-X adapter and is supported by the standard em(4) driver in FreeBSD 6.x, The PRO/1000 PT mentioned below is a PCI-Express adapter and is not supported by the standard driver in 6.x, but (as mentioned) should be supported by the driver available from Intel. If you wish to utilise the PCI Express expansion slots by using a Pro/1000 PT network adapter, the procedure to follow might be something like be this: 1. Install 6.1-RELEASE from CD, being sure to install the kernel source 2. Obtain the latest Intel driver for FreeBSD 6.x (if it is still not available on the website, email me and I will send it to you) 3. Burn the driver onto a CD or other media and copy it onto the server 4. Extract the driver source, and copy the if_em* files across into /usr/src/sys/dev/em/ 5. Build a new kernel (GENERIC will suffice) which will utilise the new driver source (cd /usr/src make buildkernel) 6. Install the kernel and reboot (make installkernel) You should now have a working network with your Pro/1000 PT... Regards Antony ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: FreeBSD 6.0 compat with DL320 G4
Correct, it will not fit - unless you order the PCI-X riser card from HP and replace the PCI-Express riser card that ships with the 320 with the PCI-X riser card. Ted - Original Message - From: William [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Antony Mawer [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Ted Mittelstaedt [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, July 03, 2006 10:56 AM Subject: Re: FreeBSD 6.0 compat with DL320 G4 Did you guys say the card I've got in another box wont fit into a 320? On 03/07/06, Antony Mawer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 29/06/2006 9:27 PM, Erik Trulsson wrote: On Fri, Jun 30, 2006 at 07:56:00AM +0100, William wrote: Antony, I've got an Intel card in production already on a homebrew box, the code is INTEL-PWLA8492MT and description is Intel Dual Port Server Adapter 10/100/1000. Any idea if that will do? That is a PRO/1000 MT card, which is a PCI-X adapter and is supported by the standard em(4) driver in FreeBSD 6.x, The PRO/1000 PT mentioned below is a PCI-Express adapter and is not supported by the standard driver in 6.x, but (as mentioned) should be supported by the driver available from Intel. If you wish to utilise the PCI Express expansion slots by using a Pro/1000 PT network adapter, the procedure to follow might be something like be this: 1. Install 6.1-RELEASE from CD, being sure to install the kernel source 2. Obtain the latest Intel driver for FreeBSD 6.x (if it is still not available on the website, email me and I will send it to you) 3. Burn the driver onto a CD or other media and copy it onto the server 4. Extract the driver source, and copy the if_em* files across into /usr/src/sys/dev/em/ 5. Build a new kernel (GENERIC will suffice) which will utilise the new driver source (cd /usr/src make buildkernel) 6. Install the kernel and reboot (make installkernel) You should now have a working network with your Pro/1000 PT... Regards Antony ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: FreeBSD 6.0 compat with DL320 G4
On 29/06/2006 9:27 PM, Erik Trulsson wrote: On Fri, Jun 30, 2006 at 07:56:00AM +0100, William wrote: Antony, I've got an Intel card in production already on a homebrew box, the code is INTEL-PWLA8492MT and description is Intel Dual Port Server Adapter 10/100/1000. Any idea if that will do? That is a PRO/1000 MT card, which is a PCI-X adapter and is supported by the standard em(4) driver in FreeBSD 6.x, The PRO/1000 PT mentioned below is a PCI-Express adapter and is not supported by the standard driver in 6.x, but (as mentioned) should be supported by the driver available from Intel. If you wish to utilise the PCI Express expansion slots by using a Pro/1000 PT network adapter, the procedure to follow might be something like be this: 1. Install 6.1-RELEASE from CD, being sure to install the kernel source 2. Obtain the latest Intel driver for FreeBSD 6.x (if it is still not available on the website, email me and I will send it to you) 3. Burn the driver onto a CD or other media and copy it onto the server 4. Extract the driver source, and copy the if_em* files across into /usr/src/sys/dev/em/ 5. Build a new kernel (GENERIC will suffice) which will utilise the new driver source (cd /usr/src make buildkernel) 6. Install the kernel and reboot (make installkernel) You should now have a working network with your Pro/1000 PT... Regards Antony ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: FreeBSD 6.0 compat with DL320 G4
- Original Message - From: Antony Mawer [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: William [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Antony Mawer [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Ted Mittelstaedt [EMAIL PROTECTED]; freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Sent: Thursday, June 29, 2006 11:07 PM Subject: Re: FreeBSD 6.0 compat with DL320 G4 On 30/06/2006 3:53 PM, William wrote: Thanks for the email Antony, I'm awaiting delivery of the server so I might have to order an intel card sharpish. What can I do the server+fbsd 6.x to prove the lock up? Regards, Will Configure the network card (bge0) and then do something to pass traffic across the network (eg. ping another host on the network). In our case, the machine booting at startup and the various network services starting up was enough to do it within seconds. The patch I posted to the PR database fixes that problem. Unfortunately there is another problem with the broadcom driver that affects many different broadcom chipsets, it's a timeout error. I gave up trying to find that one. The timeout error only affects certain broadcom chips. I have a copy of the Intel driver we used if you are looking to run this machine on FreeBSD 6.0 or 6.1; the standard driver in these releases will not support the Pro/1000 PT (at least the card we used). You can order the PCI-X riser card for this server and use an Intel Pro 1000 MT Server card and it will work out of the box with FreeBSD 6.1 Ted ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: FreeBSD 6.0 compat with DL320 G4
Bloody good point. On 01/07/06, Ted Mittelstaedt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How will you cvsup without a network connection? Ted - Original Message - From: William [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Antony Mawer [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Sent: Friday, June 30, 2006 12:51 AM Subject: Re: FreeBSD 6.0 compat with DL320 G4 Will i get the updated driver by just cvsup'ing to stable once I install -STABLE from CD? On 30/06/06, Antony Mawer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 30/06/2006 4:56 PM, William wrote: I've got an Intel card in production already on a homebrew box, the code is INTEL-PWLA8492MT and description is Intel Dual Port Server Adapter 10/100/1000. Any idea if that will do? The adapter you mentioned is a PCI-X adapter, which won't work unless you purchase the optional PCI-X riser card to replace the standard one in the DL320 G4. The standard riser card provides PCI Express slots (1 half height, 1 full height), that are not compatible with PCI-X (or regular PCI). You will need to either: 1) Purchase the PCI-X riser, and then use your existing card (provided that FreeBSD 6.x will recognise it) 2) Purchase a PCI Express NIC, which will (likely) _not_ work with the standard driver in 6.x. Option 1 may or may not work with the standard 6.x driver; I know the PCI Express one definately does NOT. That being said, it is _very_ simple to add the updated Intel driver and rebuild the kernel if you need to do so (for either option): I'd be happy to help you with the steps you need to do so if you require. Regards Antony ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: FreeBSD 6.0 compat with DL320 G4
How will you cvsup without a network connection? Ted - Original Message - From: William [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Antony Mawer [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Sent: Friday, June 30, 2006 12:51 AM Subject: Re: FreeBSD 6.0 compat with DL320 G4 Will i get the updated driver by just cvsup'ing to stable once I install -STABLE from CD? On 30/06/06, Antony Mawer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 30/06/2006 4:56 PM, William wrote: I've got an Intel card in production already on a homebrew box, the code is INTEL-PWLA8492MT and description is Intel Dual Port Server Adapter 10/100/1000. Any idea if that will do? The adapter you mentioned is a PCI-X adapter, which won't work unless you purchase the optional PCI-X riser card to replace the standard one in the DL320 G4. The standard riser card provides PCI Express slots (1 half height, 1 full height), that are not compatible with PCI-X (or regular PCI). You will need to either: 1) Purchase the PCI-X riser, and then use your existing card (provided that FreeBSD 6.x will recognise it) 2) Purchase a PCI Express NIC, which will (likely) _not_ work with the standard driver in 6.x. Option 1 may or may not work with the standard 6.x driver; I know the PCI Express one definately does NOT. That being said, it is _very_ simple to add the updated Intel driver and rebuild the kernel if you need to do so (for either option): I'd be happy to help you with the steps you need to do so if you require. Regards Antony ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: FreeBSD 6.0 compat with DL320 G4
What I had to do is mount a floppy in a second machine, copy the broadcom driver patch over to the floppy, then mount the floppy in the DL320 and copy the driver to the system, recompile the kernel with the patched driver. Once the initial patch for the Broadcom chip is made, it will give you a usable enough network connection so that you can copy larger files over without the server panicing, however without warning a file transfer can halt due to the timeout problem. So you still have to stand over it. The easiest way is to buy the replacement PCI-X riser card and use the Intel Pro 1000 MT Server adapter in it, then the system will install and run out of the box. But if you don't mind the floppy shuffle you can save $30 on buying the replacement riser card and just go with the PCI-Express riser card that comes with the system and the Intel Pro 1000 PT Server adapter, and then when the system is installed, copy the 7.1 driver over to it via a floppy, recompile the kernel, etc. Ted - Original Message - From: William [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Ted Mittelstaedt [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Antony Mawer [EMAIL PROTECTED]; freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Sent: Saturday, July 01, 2006 1:45 PM Subject: Re: FreeBSD 6.0 compat with DL320 G4 Bloody good point. On 01/07/06, Ted Mittelstaedt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How will you cvsup without a network connection? Ted - Original Message - From: William [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Antony Mawer [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Sent: Friday, June 30, 2006 12:51 AM Subject: Re: FreeBSD 6.0 compat with DL320 G4 Will i get the updated driver by just cvsup'ing to stable once I install -STABLE from CD? On 30/06/06, Antony Mawer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 30/06/2006 4:56 PM, William wrote: I've got an Intel card in production already on a homebrew box, the code is INTEL-PWLA8492MT and description is Intel Dual Port Server Adapter 10/100/1000. Any idea if that will do? The adapter you mentioned is a PCI-X adapter, which won't work unless you purchase the optional PCI-X riser card to replace the standard one in the DL320 G4. The standard riser card provides PCI Express slots (1 half height, 1 full height), that are not compatible with PCI-X (or regular PCI). You will need to either: 1) Purchase the PCI-X riser, and then use your existing card (provided that FreeBSD 6.x will recognise it) 2) Purchase a PCI Express NIC, which will (likely) _not_ work with the standard driver in 6.x. Option 1 may or may not work with the standard 6.x driver; I know the PCI Express one definately does NOT. That being said, it is _very_ simple to add the updated Intel driver and rebuild the kernel if you need to do so (for either option): I'd be happy to help you with the steps you need to do so if you require. Regards Antony ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: FreeBSD 6.0 compat with DL320 G4
Thanks for the email Antony, I'm awaiting delivery of the server so I might have to order an intel card sharpish. What can I do the server+fbsd 6.x to prove the lock up? Regards, Will On 30/06/06, Antony Mawer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 23/06/2006 6:24 PM, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: Out of the box the DL 320 G4 ships with a riser card that has 2 pci express slots. At least that is what they are supposed to be, we haven't tried them. ... If you only do the pci express then the adapter you want is the Intel Pro 1000 PT either the single port or the dual port, and make sure it is the server adapter not the desktop adapter (the models carry the same model number but different descriptions, which is infuriating) We ended up in this same situation, and went down the Intel PCI express NIC path (Intel Pro/1000PT). Be advised that, at this stage, the driver in both 6.0 and 6.1 -RELEASE does not support this card, but support is present in 7-CURRENT. That being said, with the official Intel driver (v6.0.5, not sure if it's released yet), I was able to replace the standard em driver in 6.0, build a new kernel, and bring the server up and survive some pre-deployment load testing without any hiccups. Be aware that while the riser card has two PCI Express slots, one is half-height, and the Intel NICs (at least the one we received) are a full card. The onboard Broadcom NICs weren't worth the PCBs they were printed on in terms of stability -- we were seeing the same hard lockups as Ted and didn't have the luxury of time to spend fiddling with it!! From what I gather from Ted's previous investigations, there's various work-arounds in the Linux driver that work around some shortcomings in the hardware itself... Regards Antony ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: FreeBSD 6.0 compat with DL320 G4
On 30/06/2006 3:53 PM, William wrote: Thanks for the email Antony, I'm awaiting delivery of the server so I might have to order an intel card sharpish. What can I do the server+fbsd 6.x to prove the lock up? Regards, Will Configure the network card (bge0) and then do something to pass traffic across the network (eg. ping another host on the network). In our case, the machine booting at startup and the various network services starting up was enough to do it within seconds. I have a copy of the Intel driver we used if you are looking to run this machine on FreeBSD 6.0 or 6.1; the standard driver in these releases will not support the Pro/1000 PT (at least the card we used). Regards Antony ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: FreeBSD 6.0 compat with DL320 G4
Antony, I've got an Intel card in production already on a homebrew box, the code is INTEL-PWLA8492MT and description is Intel Dual Port Server Adapter 10/100/1000. Any idea if that will do? On 30/06/06, Antony Mawer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 30/06/2006 3:53 PM, William wrote: Thanks for the email Antony, I'm awaiting delivery of the server so I might have to order an intel card sharpish. What can I do the server+fbsd 6.x to prove the lock up? Regards, Will Configure the network card (bge0) and then do something to pass traffic across the network (eg. ping another host on the network). In our case, the machine booting at startup and the various network services starting up was enough to do it within seconds. I have a copy of the Intel driver we used if you are looking to run this machine on FreeBSD 6.0 or 6.1; the standard driver in these releases will not support the Pro/1000 PT (at least the card we used). Regards Antony ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: FreeBSD 6.0 compat with DL320 G4
On 30/06/2006 4:56 PM, William wrote: I've got an Intel card in production already on a homebrew box, the code is INTEL-PWLA8492MT and description is Intel Dual Port Server Adapter 10/100/1000. Any idea if that will do? The adapter you mentioned is a PCI-X adapter, which won't work unless you purchase the optional PCI-X riser card to replace the standard one in the DL320 G4. The standard riser card provides PCI Express slots (1 half height, 1 full height), that are not compatible with PCI-X (or regular PCI). You will need to either: 1) Purchase the PCI-X riser, and then use your existing card (provided that FreeBSD 6.x will recognise it) 2) Purchase a PCI Express NIC, which will (likely) _not_ work with the standard driver in 6.x. Option 1 may or may not work with the standard 6.x driver; I know the PCI Express one definately does NOT. That being said, it is _very_ simple to add the updated Intel driver and rebuild the kernel if you need to do so (for either option): I'd be happy to help you with the steps you need to do so if you require. Regards Antony ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: FreeBSD 6.0 compat with DL320 G4
On Fri, Jun 30, 2006 at 07:56:00AM +0100, William wrote: Antony, I've got an Intel card in production already on a homebrew box, the code is INTEL-PWLA8492MT and description is Intel Dual Port Server Adapter 10/100/1000. Any idea if that will do? That is a PRO/1000 MT card, which is a PCI-X adapter and is supported by the standard em(4) driver in FreeBSD 6.x, The PRO/1000 PT mentioned below is a PCI-Express adapter and is not supported by the standard driver in 6.x, but (as mentioned) should be supported by the driver available from Intel. Which card you want depends on what kind of expansion slot(s) you have available. On 30/06/06, Antony Mawer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 30/06/2006 3:53 PM, William wrote: Thanks for the email Antony, I'm awaiting delivery of the server so I might have to order an intel card sharpish. What can I do the server+fbsd 6.x to prove the lock up? Regards, Will Configure the network card (bge0) and then do something to pass traffic across the network (eg. ping another host on the network). In our case, the machine booting at startup and the various network services starting up was enough to do it within seconds. I have a copy of the Intel driver we used if you are looking to run this machine on FreeBSD 6.0 or 6.1; the standard driver in these releases will not support the Pro/1000 PT (at least the card we used). Regards Antony -- Insert your favourite quote here. Erik Trulsson [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: FreeBSD 6.0 compat with DL320 G4
Will i get the updated driver by just cvsup'ing to stable once I install -STABLE from CD? On 30/06/06, Antony Mawer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 30/06/2006 4:56 PM, William wrote: I've got an Intel card in production already on a homebrew box, the code is INTEL-PWLA8492MT and description is Intel Dual Port Server Adapter 10/100/1000. Any idea if that will do? The adapter you mentioned is a PCI-X adapter, which won't work unless you purchase the optional PCI-X riser card to replace the standard one in the DL320 G4. The standard riser card provides PCI Express slots (1 half height, 1 full height), that are not compatible with PCI-X (or regular PCI). You will need to either: 1) Purchase the PCI-X riser, and then use your existing card (provided that FreeBSD 6.x will recognise it) 2) Purchase a PCI Express NIC, which will (likely) _not_ work with the standard driver in 6.x. Option 1 may or may not work with the standard 6.x driver; I know the PCI Express one definately does NOT. That being said, it is _very_ simple to add the updated Intel driver and rebuild the kernel if you need to do so (for either option): I'd be happy to help you with the steps you need to do so if you require. Regards Antony ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: FreeBSD 6.0 compat with DL320 G4
On 23/06/2006 6:24 PM, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: Out of the box the DL 320 G4 ships with a riser card that has 2 pci express slots. At least that is what they are supposed to be, we haven't tried them. ... If you only do the pci express then the adapter you want is the Intel Pro 1000 PT either the single port or the dual port, and make sure it is the server adapter not the desktop adapter (the models carry the same model number but different descriptions, which is infuriating) We ended up in this same situation, and went down the Intel PCI express NIC path (Intel Pro/1000PT). Be advised that, at this stage, the driver in both 6.0 and 6.1 -RELEASE does not support this card, but support is present in 7-CURRENT. That being said, with the official Intel driver (v6.0.5, not sure if it's released yet), I was able to replace the standard em driver in 6.0, build a new kernel, and bring the server up and survive some pre-deployment load testing without any hiccups. Be aware that while the riser card has two PCI Express slots, one is half-height, and the Intel NICs (at least the one we received) are a full card. The onboard Broadcom NICs weren't worth the PCBs they were printed on in terms of stability -- we were seeing the same hard lockups as Ted and didn't have the luxury of time to spend fiddling with it!! From what I gather from Ted's previous investigations, there's various work-arounds in the Linux driver that work around some shortcomings in the hardware itself... Regards Antony ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: FreeBSD 6.0 compat with DL320 G4
It is fine as long as you buy a 64 bit pc-express intel ethernet card. The patch I created makes the broadcom chip work without panicing the kernel Unfortunately the chip periodically issues a timeout error message and momentararily downs the interface. There are a number of complaints in the PR database about this happening with this driver, with different models of the broadcom chip in different machines. Ted - Original Message - From: William [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Ted Mittelstaedt [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Sent: Wednesday, June 21, 2006 1:16 AM Subject: Re: FreeBSD 6.0 compat with DL320 G4 Hello again, Sorry to dig this up again. I'm in the position to order the server now and the DL320 is within our price range. Is everyone still having an enjoyable experience running FreeBSD on the DL3XX G4 range? Regards, William On 05/05/06, Ted Mittelstaedt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yes, for some reason the first nic locks the system up when you try to bring it up. Ted -Original Message- From: William [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, May 05, 2006 2:39 AM To: Ted Mittelstaedt Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD 6.0 compat with DL320 G4 Hi Ted, Great news! but as per your patch you can only use the second nic? Cheers, Will On 05/05/06, Ted Mittelstaedt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi William, I was able to create a patch that fixed the problem, see here: http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=96806 Ted -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of William Sent: Wednesday, May 03, 2006 1:41 AM To: Ted Mittelstaedt Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD 6.0 compat with DL320 G4 The chances of getting it returned because fbsd doesnt work are very small! :( On 03/05/06, Ted Mittelstaedt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a DL320 G4 in the rack and the thing panics under 6.1-RC1 when more than a few K of data is sent over the bge interface. I haven't tried 6.0-RELEASE on it. Just make sure you can return it if it doesen't work. Ted -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of William Sent: Tuesday, May 02, 2006 3:10 AM To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD 6.0 compat with DL320 G4 What was your experience like with 6.0-RELEASE and the dl320 g4? I've had a quote back on that model so could be near to actually getting some hardware for once :) On 30/04/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED]@mgEDV.net [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: just for info: our dl320 g4 also has bge interfaces, and they work very well under 6.1-RC1 (even BETA4 was ok). but our server has been bought 2 months ago, maybe there's a newer/different chipset in it. we also have a dl320 g2 being heavily used as lan switches monitor, this server also has bge interfaces and had no problem since 1 year capturing and analyzing more than 26GB/day (avg) of nw-data on the 2nd interface and serving more than 4GB/day (avg) on the primary one (both IPv4 only). c ya ;-) ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.385 / Virus Database: 268.5.1/328 - Release Date: 5/1/2006 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.385 / Virus Database: 268.5.1/328 - Release Date: 5/1/2006 -- No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.392 / Virus Database: 268.5.3/331 - Release Date: 5/3/2006 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: FreeBSD 6.0 compat with DL320 G4
Wow thats a total pain in the arse, I'll put it through some stress testing before it gets shipped. Can you reccomend a card? On 23/06/06, Ted Mittelstaedt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It is fine as long as you buy a 64 bit pc-express intel ethernet card. The patch I created makes the broadcom chip work without panicing the kernel Unfortunately the chip periodically issues a timeout error message and momentararily downs the interface. There are a number of complaints in the PR database about this happening with this driver, with different models of the broadcom chip in different machines. Ted - Original Message - From: William [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Ted Mittelstaedt [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Sent: Wednesday, June 21, 2006 1:16 AM Subject: Re: FreeBSD 6.0 compat with DL320 G4 Hello again, Sorry to dig this up again. I'm in the position to order the server now and the DL320 is within our price range. Is everyone still having an enjoyable experience running FreeBSD on the DL3XX G4 range? Regards, William On 05/05/06, Ted Mittelstaedt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yes, for some reason the first nic locks the system up when you try to bring it up. Ted -Original Message- From: William [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, May 05, 2006 2:39 AM To: Ted Mittelstaedt Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD 6.0 compat with DL320 G4 Hi Ted, Great news! but as per your patch you can only use the second nic? Cheers, Will On 05/05/06, Ted Mittelstaedt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi William, I was able to create a patch that fixed the problem, see here: http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=96806 Ted -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of William Sent: Wednesday, May 03, 2006 1:41 AM To: Ted Mittelstaedt Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD 6.0 compat with DL320 G4 The chances of getting it returned because fbsd doesnt work are very small! :( On 03/05/06, Ted Mittelstaedt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a DL320 G4 in the rack and the thing panics under 6.1-RC1 when more than a few K of data is sent over the bge interface. I haven't tried 6.0-RELEASE on it. Just make sure you can return it if it doesen't work. Ted -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of William Sent: Tuesday, May 02, 2006 3:10 AM To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD 6.0 compat with DL320 G4 What was your experience like with 6.0-RELEASE and the dl320 g4? I've had a quote back on that model so could be near to actually getting some hardware for once :) On 30/04/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED]@mgEDV.net [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: just for info: our dl320 g4 also has bge interfaces, and they work very well under 6.1-RC1 (even BETA4 was ok). but our server has been bought 2 months ago, maybe there's a newer/different chipset in it. we also have a dl320 g2 being heavily used as lan switches monitor, this server also has bge interfaces and had no problem since 1 year capturing and analyzing more than 26GB/day (avg) of nw-data on the 2nd interface and serving more than 4GB/day (avg) on the primary one (both IPv4 only). c ya ;-) ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.385 / Virus Database: 268.5.1/328 - Release Date: 5/1/2006 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.385 / Virus Database: 268.5.1/328 - Release Date: 5/1/2006 -- No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.392 / Virus Database: 268.5.3/331 - Release Date: 5/3/2006 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: FreeBSD 6.0 compat with DL320 G4
You got 2 choices Out of the box the DL 320 G4 ships with a riser card that has 2 pci express slots. At least that is what they are supposed to be, we haven't tried them. HP sells a riser card that has a single 64 bit PCI 133 slot on it. You can buy that and replace the existing riser. If you only do the pci express then the adapter you want is the Intel Pro 1000 PT either the single port or the dual port, and make sure it is the server adapter not the desktop adapter (the models carry the same model number but different descriptions, which is infuriating) If you do the riser card replacement then you can use a Pro 1000 MT server adapter. If you buy the optional hot-swap module (which I don't think works under FreeBSD anyhow) then you have to buy the riser card with the pci 133 slot since that module is not pci express. Ted - Original Message - From: William [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Ted Mittelstaedt [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Sent: Friday, June 23, 2006 1:08 AM Subject: Re: FreeBSD 6.0 compat with DL320 G4 Wow thats a total pain in the arse, I'll put it through some stress testing before it gets shipped. Can you reccomend a card? On 23/06/06, Ted Mittelstaedt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It is fine as long as you buy a 64 bit pc-express intel ethernet card. The patch I created makes the broadcom chip work without panicing the kernel Unfortunately the chip periodically issues a timeout error message and momentararily downs the interface. There are a number of complaints in the PR database about this happening with this driver, with different models of the broadcom chip in different machines. Ted - Original Message - From: William [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Ted Mittelstaedt [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Sent: Wednesday, June 21, 2006 1:16 AM Subject: Re: FreeBSD 6.0 compat with DL320 G4 Hello again, Sorry to dig this up again. I'm in the position to order the server now and the DL320 is within our price range. Is everyone still having an enjoyable experience running FreeBSD on the DL3XX G4 range? Regards, William On 05/05/06, Ted Mittelstaedt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yes, for some reason the first nic locks the system up when you try to bring it up. Ted -Original Message- From: William [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, May 05, 2006 2:39 AM To: Ted Mittelstaedt Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD 6.0 compat with DL320 G4 Hi Ted, Great news! but as per your patch you can only use the second nic? Cheers, Will On 05/05/06, Ted Mittelstaedt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi William, I was able to create a patch that fixed the problem, see here: http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=96806 Ted -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of William Sent: Wednesday, May 03, 2006 1:41 AM To: Ted Mittelstaedt Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD 6.0 compat with DL320 G4 The chances of getting it returned because fbsd doesnt work are very small! :( On 03/05/06, Ted Mittelstaedt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a DL320 G4 in the rack and the thing panics under 6.1-RC1 when more than a few K of data is sent over the bge interface. I haven't tried 6.0-RELEASE on it. Just make sure you can return it if it doesen't work. Ted -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of William Sent: Tuesday, May 02, 2006 3:10 AM To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD 6.0 compat with DL320 G4 What was your experience like with 6.0-RELEASE and the dl320 g4? I've had a quote back on that model so could be near to actually getting some hardware for once :) On 30/04/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED]@mgEDV.net [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: just for info: our dl320 g4 also has bge interfaces, and they work very well under 6.1-RC1 (even BETA4 was ok). but our server has been bought 2 months ago, maybe there's a newer/different chipset in it. we also have a dl320 g2 being heavily used as lan switches monitor, this server also has bge interfaces and had no problem since 1 year capturing and analyzing more than 26GB/day (avg) of nw-data on the 2nd interface and serving more than 4GB/day (avg) on the primary one (both IPv4 only). c ya ;-) ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe
Re: FreeBSD 6.0 compat with DL320 G4
Hello again, Sorry to dig this up again. I'm in the position to order the server now and the DL320 is within our price range. Is everyone still having an enjoyable experience running FreeBSD on the DL3XX G4 range? Regards, William On 05/05/06, Ted Mittelstaedt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yes, for some reason the first nic locks the system up when you try to bring it up. Ted -Original Message- From: William [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, May 05, 2006 2:39 AM To: Ted Mittelstaedt Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD 6.0 compat with DL320 G4 Hi Ted, Great news! but as per your patch you can only use the second nic? Cheers, Will On 05/05/06, Ted Mittelstaedt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi William, I was able to create a patch that fixed the problem, see here: http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=96806 Ted -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of William Sent: Wednesday, May 03, 2006 1:41 AM To: Ted Mittelstaedt Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD 6.0 compat with DL320 G4 The chances of getting it returned because fbsd doesnt work are very small! :( On 03/05/06, Ted Mittelstaedt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a DL320 G4 in the rack and the thing panics under 6.1-RC1 when more than a few K of data is sent over the bge interface. I haven't tried 6.0-RELEASE on it. Just make sure you can return it if it doesen't work. Ted -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of William Sent: Tuesday, May 02, 2006 3:10 AM To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD 6.0 compat with DL320 G4 What was your experience like with 6.0-RELEASE and the dl320 g4? I've had a quote back on that model so could be near to actually getting some hardware for once :) On 30/04/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED]@mgEDV.net [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: just for info: our dl320 g4 also has bge interfaces, and they work very well under 6.1-RC1 (even BETA4 was ok). but our server has been bought 2 months ago, maybe there's a newer/different chipset in it. we also have a dl320 g2 being heavily used as lan switches monitor, this server also has bge interfaces and had no problem since 1 year capturing and analyzing more than 26GB/day (avg) of nw-data on the 2nd interface and serving more than 4GB/day (avg) on the primary one (both IPv4 only). c ya ;-) ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.385 / Virus Database: 268.5.1/328 - Release Date: 5/1/2006 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.385 / Virus Database: 268.5.1/328 - Release Date: 5/1/2006 -- No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.392 / Virus Database: 268.5.3/331 - Release Date: 5/3/2006 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: FreeBSD 6.0 compat with DL320 G4
Hi Ted, Great news! but as per your patch you can only use the second nic? Cheers, Will On 05/05/06, Ted Mittelstaedt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi William, I was able to create a patch that fixed the problem, see here: http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=96806 Ted -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of William Sent: Wednesday, May 03, 2006 1:41 AM To: Ted Mittelstaedt Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD 6.0 compat with DL320 G4 The chances of getting it returned because fbsd doesnt work are very small! :( On 03/05/06, Ted Mittelstaedt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a DL320 G4 in the rack and the thing panics under 6.1-RC1 when more than a few K of data is sent over the bge interface. I haven't tried 6.0-RELEASE on it. Just make sure you can return it if it doesen't work. Ted -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of William Sent: Tuesday, May 02, 2006 3:10 AM To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD 6.0 compat with DL320 G4 What was your experience like with 6.0-RELEASE and the dl320 g4? I've had a quote back on that model so could be near to actually getting some hardware for once :) On 30/04/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED]@mgEDV.net [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: just for info: our dl320 g4 also has bge interfaces, and they work very well under 6.1-RC1 (even BETA4 was ok). but our server has been bought 2 months ago, maybe there's a newer/different chipset in it. we also have a dl320 g2 being heavily used as lan switches monitor, this server also has bge interfaces and had no problem since 1 year capturing and analyzing more than 26GB/day (avg) of nw-data on the 2nd interface and serving more than 4GB/day (avg) on the primary one (both IPv4 only). c ya ;-) ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.385 / Virus Database: 268.5.1/328 - Release Date: 5/1/2006 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.385 / Virus Database: 268.5.1/328 - Release Date: 5/1/2006 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: FreeBSD 6.0 compat with DL320 G4
Yes, for some reason the first nic locks the system up when you try to bring it up. Ted -Original Message- From: William [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, May 05, 2006 2:39 AM To: Ted Mittelstaedt Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD 6.0 compat with DL320 G4 Hi Ted, Great news! but as per your patch you can only use the second nic? Cheers, Will On 05/05/06, Ted Mittelstaedt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi William, I was able to create a patch that fixed the problem, see here: http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=96806 Ted -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of William Sent: Wednesday, May 03, 2006 1:41 AM To: Ted Mittelstaedt Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD 6.0 compat with DL320 G4 The chances of getting it returned because fbsd doesnt work are very small! :( On 03/05/06, Ted Mittelstaedt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a DL320 G4 in the rack and the thing panics under 6.1-RC1 when more than a few K of data is sent over the bge interface. I haven't tried 6.0-RELEASE on it. Just make sure you can return it if it doesen't work. Ted -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of William Sent: Tuesday, May 02, 2006 3:10 AM To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD 6.0 compat with DL320 G4 What was your experience like with 6.0-RELEASE and the dl320 g4? I've had a quote back on that model so could be near to actually getting some hardware for once :) On 30/04/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED]@mgEDV.net [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: just for info: our dl320 g4 also has bge interfaces, and they work very well under 6.1-RC1 (even BETA4 was ok). but our server has been bought 2 months ago, maybe there's a newer/different chipset in it. we also have a dl320 g2 being heavily used as lan switches monitor, this server also has bge interfaces and had no problem since 1 year capturing and analyzing more than 26GB/day (avg) of nw-data on the 2nd interface and serving more than 4GB/day (avg) on the primary one (both IPv4 only). c ya ;-) ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.385 / Virus Database: 268.5.1/328 - Release Date: 5/1/2006 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.385 / Virus Database: 268.5.1/328 - Release Date: 5/1/2006 -- No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.392 / Virus Database: 268.5.3/331 - Release Date: 5/3/2006 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: FreeBSD 6.0 compat with DL320 G4
You may get lucky and get a DL320 G4 that does not have the specific Broadcom chip in it. not sure, but maybe you can specify at least the chipset you DON'T want in your order (hp should be able to figure it out using the serial#, and this no. is on the boxes. the order way would be: check for avail., ask your dealer(s) for some sn#'s for devices you want, let them check (or check on your own with hp for the chipset) and order the box (i guess at least a charge-no. should fit, they don't change the chips all 8hrs). ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: FreeBSD 6.0 compat with DL320 G4
Hi All, Actually I think I figured out the problem in the driver and I'm going to test this tomorrow. For those of you smart guys who like math, take a look at the following change that was made in the driver CVS a couple years ago: http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/src/sys/dev/bge/if_bge.c.diff?r1=1. 37r2=1.38 It looks like at the time the maintainer decided he didn't like all the nasty magic numbers like 0x3F000F in the code and so replaced it with some equally nasty macros pointing to other magic numbers, plus some elaborate shifting of bits to try to generate the magic numbers he eliminated from the magic numbers he created. The only problem is that, for example, the bitwise ORing and shifting he's doing is not going to convert 0x10, 0x13, and 0x0f into 0x3F000F At least, none that I know about and I spent a couple hours trying to figure out why he was doing what he did. Maybe someone out there can look at this section of code for me and see if they can figure this out? More importantly, the specific Broadcom chip (BCM5714) has an exception in the Linux driver from Broadcom with it's own spechul magic number different from the magic numbers used for the other chipsets, and this isn't in the FreeBSD driver. Ted -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED]@mgEDV.net Sent: Thursday, May 04, 2006 2:55 AM To: 'William' Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: RE: FreeBSD 6.0 compat with DL320 G4 You may get lucky and get a DL320 G4 that does not have the specific Broadcom chip in it. not sure, but maybe you can specify at least the chipset you DON'T want in your order (hp should be able to figure it out using the serial#, and this no. is on the boxes. the order way would be: check for avail., ask your dealer(s) for some sn#'s for devices you want, let them check (or check on your own with hp for the chipset) and order the box (i guess at least a charge-no. should fit, they don't change the chips all 8hrs). ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.385 / Virus Database: 268.5.1/328 - Release Date: 5/1/2006 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: FreeBSD 6.0 compat with DL320 G4
Hi William, I was able to create a patch that fixed the problem, see here: http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=96806 Ted -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of William Sent: Wednesday, May 03, 2006 1:41 AM To: Ted Mittelstaedt Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD 6.0 compat with DL320 G4 The chances of getting it returned because fbsd doesnt work are very small! :( On 03/05/06, Ted Mittelstaedt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a DL320 G4 in the rack and the thing panics under 6.1-RC1 when more than a few K of data is sent over the bge interface. I haven't tried 6.0-RELEASE on it. Just make sure you can return it if it doesen't work. Ted -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of William Sent: Tuesday, May 02, 2006 3:10 AM To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD 6.0 compat with DL320 G4 What was your experience like with 6.0-RELEASE and the dl320 g4? I've had a quote back on that model so could be near to actually getting some hardware for once :) On 30/04/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED]@mgEDV.net [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: just for info: our dl320 g4 also has bge interfaces, and they work very well under 6.1-RC1 (even BETA4 was ok). but our server has been bought 2 months ago, maybe there's a newer/different chipset in it. we also have a dl320 g2 being heavily used as lan switches monitor, this server also has bge interfaces and had no problem since 1 year capturing and analyzing more than 26GB/day (avg) of nw-data on the 2nd interface and serving more than 4GB/day (avg) on the primary one (both IPv4 only). c ya ;-) ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.385 / Virus Database: 268.5.1/328 - Release Date: 5/1/2006 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.385 / Virus Database: 268.5.1/328 - Release Date: 5/1/2006 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: FreeBSD 6.0 compat with DL320 G4
I have a DL320 G4 in the rack and the thing panics under 6.1-RC1 when more than a few K of data is sent over the bge interface. I haven't tried 6.0-RELEASE on it. Just make sure you can return it if it doesen't work. Ted -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of William Sent: Tuesday, May 02, 2006 3:10 AM To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD 6.0 compat with DL320 G4 What was your experience like with 6.0-RELEASE and the dl320 g4? I've had a quote back on that model so could be near to actually getting some hardware for once :) On 30/04/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED]@mgEDV.net [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: just for info: our dl320 g4 also has bge interfaces, and they work very well under 6.1-RC1 (even BETA4 was ok). but our server has been bought 2 months ago, maybe there's a newer/different chipset in it. we also have a dl320 g2 being heavily used as lan switches monitor, this server also has bge interfaces and had no problem since 1 year capturing and analyzing more than 26GB/day (avg) of nw-data on the 2nd interface and serving more than 4GB/day (avg) on the primary one (both IPv4 only). c ya ;-) ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.385 / Virus Database: 268.5.1/328 - Release Date: 5/1/2006 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: FreeBSD 6.0 compat with DL320 G4
I have a DL320 G4 in the rack and the thing panics under 6.1-RC1 when more than a few K of data is sent over the bge interface. I haven't tried 6.0-RELEASE on it. Just make sure you can return it if it doesen't work. did you ever try to install win2k/2k3 on it and apply all fw-patches from hp to the box? you also could try the fw-upgrade-cd, which is avail as iso-download on hp.com. the NICs also have upgradeable fw, check for this (if you didn't ;-)) further, you could check for some special settings, or boot your sys from the cd, configure the NIC and run some tests (w/o installation or customization). what i also wouldn't rule out is a possible hw-defect on your box (or an older/incompatible chipset revision) even if it works proper under MS (you tried that, haven't you ;-)?). beyond you can see some stats from our box so you're probably able to compare your system to it. the box has been cold-booted before running an ftp-transfer of 5 and 20mb as a GET and then a transfer to another host using put (also 5 and 20mb). all run under 6.1-RC2. ifconfig: bge0: flags=8843UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST mtu 1500 options=1bRXCSUM,TXCSUM,VLAN_MTU,VLAN_HWTAGGING inet6 fe80::215:60ff:feaa:39d2%bge0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x1 inet 192.168.134.3 netmask 0xffe0 broadcast 192.168.134.31 ether 00:15:60:aa:39:d2 media: Ethernet autoselect (1000baseTX full-duplex) status: active some netstat's (i removed sections with all being 0): tcp: 29512 packets sent 17196 data packets (24848556 bytes) 0 data packets (0 bytes) retransmitted 0 data packets unnecessarily retransmitted 0 resends initiated by MTU discovery 7228 ack-only packets (23 delayed) 0 URG only packets 0 window probe packets 5072 window update packets 16 control packets 25699 packets received 8647 acks (for 24848565 bytes) 7 duplicate acks 0 acks for unsent data 14825 packets (21555935 bytes) received in-sequence 0 completely duplicate packets (0 bytes) 0 old duplicate packets 0 packets with some dup. data (0 bytes duped) 2258 out-of-order packets (3296680 bytes) 0 packets (0 bytes) of data after window 0 window probes 0 window update packets 0 packets received after close 0 discarded for bad checksums 0 discarded for bad header offset fields 0 discarded because packet too short 9 connection requests 0 connection accepts 0 bad connection attempts 0 listen queue overflows 0 ignored RSTs in the windows 9 connections established (including accepts) 14 connections closed (including 0 drops) 4 connections updated cached RTT on close 4 connections updated cached RTT variance on close 0 connections updated cached ssthresh on close 0 embryonic connections dropped 8647 segments updated rtt (of 8473 attempts) 0 retransmit timeouts 0 connections dropped by rexmit timeout 0 persist timeouts 0 connections dropped by persist timeout 0 keepalive timeouts 0 keepalive probes sent 0 connections dropped by keepalive 8489 correct ACK header predictions 14785 correct data packet header predictions 0 syncache entries added 0 retransmitted 0 dupsyn 0 dropped 0 completed 0 bucket overflow 0 cache overflow 0 reset 0 stale 0 aborted 0 badack 0 unreach 0 zone failures 0 cookies sent 0 cookies received 0 SACK recovery episodes 0 segment rexmits in SACK recovery episodes 0 byte rexmits in SACK recovery episodes 0 SACK options (SACK blocks) received 2148 SACK options (SACK blocks) sent 0 SACK scoreboard overflow udp: 17 datagrams received 0 with incomplete header 0 with bad data length field 0 with bad checksum 0 with no checksum 8 dropped due to no socket 7 broadcast/multicast datagrams dropped due to no socket 0 dropped due to full socket buffers 0 not for hashed pcb 2 delivered 11 datagrams output ip: 25733 total packets received 0 bad header checksums 0 with size smaller than minimum 0 with data size data length 0 with ip length max ip packet size 0 with header length data size 0 with data length header
Re: FreeBSD 6.0 compat with DL320 G4
The chances of getting it returned because fbsd doesnt work are very small! :( On 03/05/06, Ted Mittelstaedt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a DL320 G4 in the rack and the thing panics under 6.1-RC1 when more than a few K of data is sent over the bge interface. I haven't tried 6.0-RELEASE on it. Just make sure you can return it if it doesen't work. Ted -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of William Sent: Tuesday, May 02, 2006 3:10 AM To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD 6.0 compat with DL320 G4 What was your experience like with 6.0-RELEASE and the dl320 g4? I've had a quote back on that model so could be near to actually getting some hardware for once :) On 30/04/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED]@mgEDV.net [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: just for info: our dl320 g4 also has bge interfaces, and they work very well under 6.1-RC1 (even BETA4 was ok). but our server has been bought 2 months ago, maybe there's a newer/different chipset in it. we also have a dl320 g2 being heavily used as lan switches monitor, this server also has bge interfaces and had no problem since 1 year capturing and analyzing more than 26GB/day (avg) of nw-data on the 2nd interface and serving more than 4GB/day (avg) on the primary one (both IPv4 only). c ya ;-) ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.385 / Virus Database: 268.5.1/328 - Release Date: 5/1/2006 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: FreeBSD 6.0 compat with DL320 G4
Hi All, This server is using the Broadcom BCM5704C, the problem child chipset (that is discussed in the PR 94307 that I referred to) is the BCM5714. This is also running a different CPU - your running a 3.4Ghz pentium 4, we are running a 2.8Ghz Pentium D. Your CPU chip ID is 0xf43 ours is 0xf44 While you can specify different CPU speeds, I would be pretty nervous in assuming that simply specifying a different CPU speed would change the ethernet chipset on the motherboard. If William does go forward with his order I would certainly suggest he order the faster server, and cross his fingers. NoSpam it would be very useful if you could submit a followup to the PR 94307 with your dmesg, and note that while the server model # is the same the ethernet chipset is different. Ted -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED]@mgEDV.net Sent: Tuesday, May 02, 2006 7:25 AM To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Cc: 'William' Subject: RE: FreeBSD 6.0 compat with DL320 G4 What was your experience like with 6.0-RELEASE and the dl320 g4? I've had a quote back on that model so could be near to actually getting some hardware for once :) we didn't really run 6.0-RELEASE on the system, as the 6.1-BETAs had been out when we bought the server. therefore not really man exp. on this. for ted's request, here's the dmesg ;-) - Copyright (c) 1992-2006 The FreeBSD Project. Copyright (c) 1979, 1980, 1983, 1986, 1988, 1989, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994 The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. FreeBSD 6.1-RC2 #0: Sun Apr 30 09:42:38 UTC 2006 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC ACPI APIC Table: HP 0083 Timecounter i8254 frequency 1193182 Hz quality 0 CPU: Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 3.40GHz (3391.52-MHz 686-class CPU) Origin = GenuineIntel Id = 0xf43 Stepping = 3 Features=0xbfebfbffFPU,VME,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,APIC,SEP, MTRR,PGE,MCA ,CMOV,PAT,PSE36,CLFLUSH,DTS,ACPI,MMX,FXSR,SSE,SSE2,SS,HTT,TM,PBE Features2=0x649dSSE3,RSVD2,MON,DS_CPL,EST,CNTX-ID,CX16,b14 AMD Features=0x2000LM Logical CPUs per core: 2 real memory = 1073688576 (1023 MB) avail memory = 1041743872 (993 MB) ioapic0 Version 2.0 irqs 0-23 on motherboard ioapic1 Version 2.0 irqs 24-47 on motherboard ioapic2 Version 2.0 irqs 48-71 on motherboard kbd1 at kbdmux0 acpi0: HP D18 on motherboard acpi0: Power Button (fixed) Timecounter ACPI-fast frequency 3579545 Hz quality 1000 acpi_timer0: 24-bit timer at 3.579545MHz port 0x908-0x90b on acpi0 cpu0: ACPI CPU on acpi0 pcib0: ACPI Host-PCI bridge on acpi0 pci0: ACPI PCI bus on pcib0 pcib0: no PRT entry for 0.31.INTA pcib1: ACPI PCI-PCI bridge at device 1.0 on pci0 pci5: ACPI PCI bus on pcib1 pcib2: ACPI PCI-PCI bridge at device 0.0 on pci5 pci6: ACPI PCI bus on pcib2 bge0: Broadcom BCM5704C Dual Gigabit Ethernet, ASIC rev. 0x2100 mem 0xfdff-0xfdff irq 24 at device 1.0 on pci6 miibus0: MII bus on bge0 brgphy0: BCM5704 10/100/1000baseTX PHY on miibus0 brgphy0: 10baseT, 10baseT-FDX, 100baseTX, 100baseTX-FDX, 1000baseTX, 1000baseTX-FDX, auto bge0: Ethernet address: 00:15:60:aa:39:d2 bge1: Broadcom BCM5704C Dual Gigabit Ethernet, ASIC rev. 0x2100 mem 0xfdfe-0xfdfe irq 25 at device 1.1 on pci6 miibus1: MII bus on bge1 brgphy1: BCM5704 10/100/1000baseTX PHY on miibus1 brgphy1: 10baseT, 10baseT-FDX, 100baseTX, 100baseTX-FDX, 1000baseTX, 1000baseTX-FDX, auto bge1: Ethernet address: 00:15:60:aa:39:d1 pcib3: ACPI PCI-PCI bridge at device 0.2 on pci5 pci9: ACPI PCI bus on pcib3 pcib4: ACPI PCI-PCI bridge at device 28.0 on pci0 pci2: ACPI PCI bus on pcib4 uhci0: Intel 82801FB/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6) USB controller USB-A port 0x1000-0x101f irq 16 at device 29.0 on pci0 uhci0: [GIANT-LOCKED] usb0: Intel 82801FB/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6) USB controller USB-A on uhci0 usb0: USB revision 1.0 uhub0: Intel UHCI root hub, class 9/0, rev 1.00/1.00, addr 1 uhub0: 2 ports with 2 removable, self powered uhci1: Intel 82801FB/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6) USB controller USB-B port 0x1020-0x103f irq 17 at device 29.1 on pci0 uhci1: [GIANT-LOCKED] usb1: Intel 82801FB/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6) USB controller USB-B on uhci1 usb1: USB revision 1.0 uhub1: Intel UHCI root hub, class 9/0, rev 1.00/1.00, addr 1 uhub1: 2 ports with 2 removable, self powered uhci2: Intel 82801FB/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6) USB controller USB-C port 0x1040-0x105f irq 18 at device 29.2 on pci0 uhci2: [GIANT-LOCKED] usb2: Intel 82801FB/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6) USB controller USB-C on uhci2 usb2: USB revision 1.0 uhub2: Intel UHCI root hub, class 9/0, rev 1.00/1.00, addr 1 uhub2: 2 ports with 2 removable, self powered uhci3: Intel 82801FB/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6) USB controller USB-D port 0x1060-0x107f irq 19 at device 29.3 on pci0 uhci3: [GIANT-LOCKED] usb3: Intel 82801FB/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6) USB controller USB-D on uhci3 usb3: USB revision 1.0 uhub3: Intel UHCI root hub, class 9/0, rev 1.00/1.00, addr 1 uhub3: 2 ports
RE: FreeBSD 6.0 compat with DL320 G4
Just an update, I checked again and our server is running a 3.0Ghz not a 2.8Ghz pentium D. Ted -Original Message- From: Ted Mittelstaedt [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, May 03, 2006 1:44 PM To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Cc: 'William' Subject: RE: FreeBSD 6.0 compat with DL320 G4 Hi All, This server is using the Broadcom BCM5704C, the problem child chipset (that is discussed in the PR 94307 that I referred to) is the BCM5714. This is also running a different CPU - your running a 3.4Ghz pentium 4, we are running a 2.8Ghz Pentium D. Your CPU chip ID is 0xf43 ours is 0xf44 While you can specify different CPU speeds, I would be pretty nervous in assuming that simply specifying a different CPU speed would change the ethernet chipset on the motherboard. If William does go forward with his order I would certainly suggest he order the faster server, and cross his fingers. NoSpam it would be very useful if you could submit a followup to the PR 94307 with your dmesg, and note that while the server model # is the same the ethernet chipset is different. Ted -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED]@mgEDV.net Sent: Tuesday, May 02, 2006 7:25 AM To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Cc: 'William' Subject: RE: FreeBSD 6.0 compat with DL320 G4 What was your experience like with 6.0-RELEASE and the dl320 g4? I've had a quote back on that model so could be near to actually getting some hardware for once :) we didn't really run 6.0-RELEASE on the system, as the 6.1-BETAs had been out when we bought the server. therefore not really man exp. on this. for ted's request, here's the dmesg ;-) - Copyright (c) 1992-2006 The FreeBSD Project. Copyright (c) 1979, 1980, 1983, 1986, 1988, 1989, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994 The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. FreeBSD 6.1-RC2 #0: Sun Apr 30 09:42:38 UTC 2006 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC ACPI APIC Table: HP 0083 Timecounter i8254 frequency 1193182 Hz quality 0 CPU: Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 3.40GHz (3391.52-MHz 686-class CPU) Origin = GenuineIntel Id = 0xf43 Stepping = 3 Features=0xbfebfbffFPU,VME,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,APIC,SEP, MTRR,PGE,MCA ,CMOV,PAT,PSE36,CLFLUSH,DTS,ACPI,MMX,FXSR,SSE,SSE2,SS,HTT,TM,PBE Features2=0x649dSSE3,RSVD2,MON,DS_CPL,EST,CNTX-ID,CX16,b14 AMD Features=0x2000LM Logical CPUs per core: 2 real memory = 1073688576 (1023 MB) avail memory = 1041743872 (993 MB) ioapic0 Version 2.0 irqs 0-23 on motherboard ioapic1 Version 2.0 irqs 24-47 on motherboard ioapic2 Version 2.0 irqs 48-71 on motherboard kbd1 at kbdmux0 acpi0: HP D18 on motherboard acpi0: Power Button (fixed) Timecounter ACPI-fast frequency 3579545 Hz quality 1000 acpi_timer0: 24-bit timer at 3.579545MHz port 0x908-0x90b on acpi0 cpu0: ACPI CPU on acpi0 pcib0: ACPI Host-PCI bridge on acpi0 pci0: ACPI PCI bus on pcib0 pcib0: no PRT entry for 0.31.INTA pcib1: ACPI PCI-PCI bridge at device 1.0 on pci0 pci5: ACPI PCI bus on pcib1 pcib2: ACPI PCI-PCI bridge at device 0.0 on pci5 pci6: ACPI PCI bus on pcib2 bge0: Broadcom BCM5704C Dual Gigabit Ethernet, ASIC rev. 0x2100 mem 0xfdff-0xfdff irq 24 at device 1.0 on pci6 miibus0: MII bus on bge0 brgphy0: BCM5704 10/100/1000baseTX PHY on miibus0 brgphy0: 10baseT, 10baseT-FDX, 100baseTX, 100baseTX-FDX, 1000baseTX, 1000baseTX-FDX, auto bge0: Ethernet address: 00:15:60:aa:39:d2 bge1: Broadcom BCM5704C Dual Gigabit Ethernet, ASIC rev. 0x2100 mem 0xfdfe-0xfdfe irq 25 at device 1.1 on pci6 miibus1: MII bus on bge1 brgphy1: BCM5704 10/100/1000baseTX PHY on miibus1 brgphy1: 10baseT, 10baseT-FDX, 100baseTX, 100baseTX-FDX, 1000baseTX, 1000baseTX-FDX, auto bge1: Ethernet address: 00:15:60:aa:39:d1 pcib3: ACPI PCI-PCI bridge at device 0.2 on pci5 pci9: ACPI PCI bus on pcib3 pcib4: ACPI PCI-PCI bridge at device 28.0 on pci0 pci2: ACPI PCI bus on pcib4 uhci0: Intel 82801FB/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6) USB controller USB-A port 0x1000-0x101f irq 16 at device 29.0 on pci0 uhci0: [GIANT-LOCKED] usb0: Intel 82801FB/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6) USB controller USB-A on uhci0 usb0: USB revision 1.0 uhub0: Intel UHCI root hub, class 9/0, rev 1.00/1.00, addr 1 uhub0: 2 ports with 2 removable, self powered uhci1: Intel 82801FB/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6) USB controller USB-B port 0x1020-0x103f irq 17 at device 29.1 on pci0 uhci1: [GIANT-LOCKED] usb1: Intel 82801FB/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6) USB controller USB-B on uhci1 usb1: USB revision 1.0 uhub1: Intel UHCI root hub, class 9/0, rev 1.00/1.00, addr 1 uhub1: 2 ports with 2 removable, self powered uhci2: Intel 82801FB/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6) USB controller USB-C port 0x1040-0x105f irq 18 at device 29.2 on pci0 uhci2: [GIANT-LOCKED] usb2: Intel 82801FB/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6) USB controller USB-C on uhci2 usb2: USB revision 1.0 uhub2: Intel UHCI root hub, class 9/0, rev 1.00/1.00, addr 1 uhub2: 2 ports with 2 removable, self
RE: FreeBSD 6.0 compat with DL320 G4
The first thing we did was install W2K on it and run the HP utility that updates all firmware - before even trying FreeBSD on it. Did I mention in the PR that the Broadcom driver for Linux works flawlessly under OpenSUSE? I think I did. Windows also works fine on the box as well (that is, Windows works as well on it as it works on any other system which isn't much) The problem is a bug in the bge driver. Many other people have filed PR's in the FreeBSD database that refer to problems on a wide variety of different server hardware, all containing this one specific chip. With panics giving the same error message. Read the PR's cited, it's all there. Ted -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED]@mgEDV.net Sent: Wednesday, May 03, 2006 1:47 AM To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Cc: 'William' Subject: RE: FreeBSD 6.0 compat with DL320 G4 I have a DL320 G4 in the rack and the thing panics under 6.1-RC1 when more than a few K of data is sent over the bge interface. I haven't tried 6.0-RELEASE on it. Just make sure you can return it if it doesen't work. did you ever try to install win2k/2k3 on it and apply all fw-patches from hp to the box? you also could try the fw-upgrade-cd, which is avail as iso-download on hp.com. the NICs also have upgradeable fw, check for this (if you didn't ;-)) further, you could check for some special settings, or boot your sys from the cd, configure the NIC and run some tests (w/o installation or customization). what i also wouldn't rule out is a possible hw-defect on your box (or an older/incompatible chipset revision) even if it works proper under MS (you tried that, haven't you ;-)?). beyond you can see some stats from our box so you're probably able to compare your system to it. the box has been cold-booted before running an ftp-transfer of 5 and 20mb as a GET and then a transfer to another host using put (also 5 and 20mb). all run under 6.1-RC2. ifconfig: bge0: flags=8843UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST mtu 1500 options=1bRXCSUM,TXCSUM,VLAN_MTU,VLAN_HWTAGGING inet6 fe80::215:60ff:feaa:39d2%bge0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x1 inet 192.168.134.3 netmask 0xffe0 broadcast 192.168.134.31 ether 00:15:60:aa:39:d2 media: Ethernet autoselect (1000baseTX full-duplex) status: active some netstat's (i removed sections with all being 0): tcp: 29512 packets sent 17196 data packets (24848556 bytes) 0 data packets (0 bytes) retransmitted 0 data packets unnecessarily retransmitted 0 resends initiated by MTU discovery 7228 ack-only packets (23 delayed) 0 URG only packets 0 window probe packets 5072 window update packets 16 control packets 25699 packets received 8647 acks (for 24848565 bytes) 7 duplicate acks 0 acks for unsent data 14825 packets (21555935 bytes) received in-sequence 0 completely duplicate packets (0 bytes) 0 old duplicate packets 0 packets with some dup. data (0 bytes duped) 2258 out-of-order packets (3296680 bytes) 0 packets (0 bytes) of data after window 0 window probes 0 window update packets 0 packets received after close 0 discarded for bad checksums 0 discarded for bad header offset fields 0 discarded because packet too short 9 connection requests 0 connection accepts 0 bad connection attempts 0 listen queue overflows 0 ignored RSTs in the windows 9 connections established (including accepts) 14 connections closed (including 0 drops) 4 connections updated cached RTT on close 4 connections updated cached RTT variance on close 0 connections updated cached ssthresh on close 0 embryonic connections dropped 8647 segments updated rtt (of 8473 attempts) 0 retransmit timeouts 0 connections dropped by rexmit timeout 0 persist timeouts 0 connections dropped by persist timeout 0 keepalive timeouts 0 keepalive probes sent 0 connections dropped by keepalive 8489 correct ACK header predictions 14785 correct data packet header predictions 0 syncache entries added 0 retransmitted 0 dupsyn 0 dropped 0 completed 0 bucket overflow 0 cache overflow 0 reset 0 stale 0 aborted 0 badack 0 unreach 0 zone failures 0 cookies sent 0 cookies received 0 SACK recovery episodes 0 segment rexmits
RE: FreeBSD 6.0 compat with DL320 G4
Then be prepared to either fix the driver, pay a developer to fix the driver, or buy a 64 bit nic that fits in the slot in the server and that is a different chipset. You may get lucky and get a DL320 G4 that does not have the specific Broadcom chip in it. Ted -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of William Sent: Wednesday, May 03, 2006 1:41 AM To: Ted Mittelstaedt Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD 6.0 compat with DL320 G4 The chances of getting it returned because fbsd doesnt work are very small! :( On 03/05/06, Ted Mittelstaedt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a DL320 G4 in the rack and the thing panics under 6.1-RC1 when more than a few K of data is sent over the bge interface. I haven't tried 6.0-RELEASE on it. Just make sure you can return it if it doesen't work. Ted -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of William Sent: Tuesday, May 02, 2006 3:10 AM To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD 6.0 compat with DL320 G4 What was your experience like with 6.0-RELEASE and the dl320 g4? I've had a quote back on that model so could be near to actually getting some hardware for once :) On 30/04/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED]@mgEDV.net [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: just for info: our dl320 g4 also has bge interfaces, and they work very well under 6.1-RC1 (even BETA4 was ok). but our server has been bought 2 months ago, maybe there's a newer/different chipset in it. we also have a dl320 g2 being heavily used as lan switches monitor, this server also has bge interfaces and had no problem since 1 year capturing and analyzing more than 26GB/day (avg) of nw-data on the 2nd interface and serving more than 4GB/day (avg) on the primary one (both IPv4 only). c ya ;-) ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.385 / Virus Database: 268.5.1/328 - Release Date: 5/1/2006 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.385 / Virus Database: 268.5.1/328 - Release Date: 5/1/2006 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: FreeBSD 6.0 compat with DL320 G4
What was your experience like with 6.0-RELEASE and the dl320 g4? I've had a quote back on that model so could be near to actually getting some hardware for once :) On 30/04/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED]@mgEDV.net [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: just for info: our dl320 g4 also has bge interfaces, and they work very well under 6.1-RC1 (even BETA4 was ok). but our server has been bought 2 months ago, maybe there's a newer/different chipset in it. we also have a dl320 g2 being heavily used as lan switches monitor, this server also has bge interfaces and had no problem since 1 year capturing and analyzing more than 26GB/day (avg) of nw-data on the 2nd interface and serving more than 4GB/day (avg) on the primary one (both IPv4 only). c ya ;-) ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: FreeBSD 6.0 compat with DL320 G4
What was your experience like with 6.0-RELEASE and the dl320 g4? I've had a quote back on that model so could be near to actually getting some hardware for once :) we didn't really run 6.0-RELEASE on the system, as the 6.1-BETAs had been out when we bought the server. therefore not really man exp. on this. for ted's request, here's the dmesg ;-) - Copyright (c) 1992-2006 The FreeBSD Project. Copyright (c) 1979, 1980, 1983, 1986, 1988, 1989, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994 The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. FreeBSD 6.1-RC2 #0: Sun Apr 30 09:42:38 UTC 2006 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC ACPI APIC Table: HP 0083 Timecounter i8254 frequency 1193182 Hz quality 0 CPU: Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 3.40GHz (3391.52-MHz 686-class CPU) Origin = GenuineIntel Id = 0xf43 Stepping = 3 Features=0xbfebfbffFPU,VME,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,APIC,SEP,MTRR,PGE,MCA ,CMOV,PAT,PSE36,CLFLUSH,DTS,ACPI,MMX,FXSR,SSE,SSE2,SS,HTT,TM,PBE Features2=0x649dSSE3,RSVD2,MON,DS_CPL,EST,CNTX-ID,CX16,b14 AMD Features=0x2000LM Logical CPUs per core: 2 real memory = 1073688576 (1023 MB) avail memory = 1041743872 (993 MB) ioapic0 Version 2.0 irqs 0-23 on motherboard ioapic1 Version 2.0 irqs 24-47 on motherboard ioapic2 Version 2.0 irqs 48-71 on motherboard kbd1 at kbdmux0 acpi0: HP D18 on motherboard acpi0: Power Button (fixed) Timecounter ACPI-fast frequency 3579545 Hz quality 1000 acpi_timer0: 24-bit timer at 3.579545MHz port 0x908-0x90b on acpi0 cpu0: ACPI CPU on acpi0 pcib0: ACPI Host-PCI bridge on acpi0 pci0: ACPI PCI bus on pcib0 pcib0: no PRT entry for 0.31.INTA pcib1: ACPI PCI-PCI bridge at device 1.0 on pci0 pci5: ACPI PCI bus on pcib1 pcib2: ACPI PCI-PCI bridge at device 0.0 on pci5 pci6: ACPI PCI bus on pcib2 bge0: Broadcom BCM5704C Dual Gigabit Ethernet, ASIC rev. 0x2100 mem 0xfdff-0xfdff irq 24 at device 1.0 on pci6 miibus0: MII bus on bge0 brgphy0: BCM5704 10/100/1000baseTX PHY on miibus0 brgphy0: 10baseT, 10baseT-FDX, 100baseTX, 100baseTX-FDX, 1000baseTX, 1000baseTX-FDX, auto bge0: Ethernet address: 00:15:60:aa:39:d2 bge1: Broadcom BCM5704C Dual Gigabit Ethernet, ASIC rev. 0x2100 mem 0xfdfe-0xfdfe irq 25 at device 1.1 on pci6 miibus1: MII bus on bge1 brgphy1: BCM5704 10/100/1000baseTX PHY on miibus1 brgphy1: 10baseT, 10baseT-FDX, 100baseTX, 100baseTX-FDX, 1000baseTX, 1000baseTX-FDX, auto bge1: Ethernet address: 00:15:60:aa:39:d1 pcib3: ACPI PCI-PCI bridge at device 0.2 on pci5 pci9: ACPI PCI bus on pcib3 pcib4: ACPI PCI-PCI bridge at device 28.0 on pci0 pci2: ACPI PCI bus on pcib4 uhci0: Intel 82801FB/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6) USB controller USB-A port 0x1000-0x101f irq 16 at device 29.0 on pci0 uhci0: [GIANT-LOCKED] usb0: Intel 82801FB/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6) USB controller USB-A on uhci0 usb0: USB revision 1.0 uhub0: Intel UHCI root hub, class 9/0, rev 1.00/1.00, addr 1 uhub0: 2 ports with 2 removable, self powered uhci1: Intel 82801FB/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6) USB controller USB-B port 0x1020-0x103f irq 17 at device 29.1 on pci0 uhci1: [GIANT-LOCKED] usb1: Intel 82801FB/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6) USB controller USB-B on uhci1 usb1: USB revision 1.0 uhub1: Intel UHCI root hub, class 9/0, rev 1.00/1.00, addr 1 uhub1: 2 ports with 2 removable, self powered uhci2: Intel 82801FB/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6) USB controller USB-C port 0x1040-0x105f irq 18 at device 29.2 on pci0 uhci2: [GIANT-LOCKED] usb2: Intel 82801FB/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6) USB controller USB-C on uhci2 usb2: USB revision 1.0 uhub2: Intel UHCI root hub, class 9/0, rev 1.00/1.00, addr 1 uhub2: 2 ports with 2 removable, self powered uhci3: Intel 82801FB/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6) USB controller USB-D port 0x1060-0x107f irq 19 at device 29.3 on pci0 uhci3: [GIANT-LOCKED] usb3: Intel 82801FB/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6) USB controller USB-D on uhci3 usb3: USB revision 1.0 uhub3: Intel UHCI root hub, class 9/0, rev 1.00/1.00, addr 1 uhub3: 2 ports with 2 removable, self powered ehci0: Intel 82801FB (ICH6) USB 2.0 controller mem 0xfbef-0xfbef03ff irq 16 at device 29.7 on pci0 ehci0: [GIANT-LOCKED] usb4: EHCI version 1.0 usb4: companion controllers, 2 ports each: usb0 usb1 usb2 usb3 usb4: Intel 82801FB (ICH6) USB 2.0 controller on ehci0 usb4: USB revision 2.0 uhub4: Intel EHCI root hub, class 9/0, rev 2.00/1.00, addr 1 uhub4: 8 ports with 8 removable, self powered umass0: USB Flash Disk, rev 2.00/2.00, addr 2 pcib5: ACPI PCI-PCI bridge at device 30.0 on pci0 pci1: ACPI PCI bus on pcib5 pci1: base peripheral at device 2.0 (no driver attached) pci1: base peripheral at device 2.2 (no driver attached) pci1: display, VGA at device 3.0 (no driver attached) isab0: PCI-ISA bridge at device 31.0 on pci0 isa0: ISA bus on isab0 atapci0: Intel ICH6 UDMA100 controller port 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6,0x170-0x177,0x376,0x500-0x50f irq 7 at device 31.1 on pci0 ata0: ATA channel 0 on atapci0 ata1: ATA channel 1 on atapci0 atapci1: Intel ICH6 SATA150 controller port
RE: FreeBSD 6.0 compat with DL320 G4
Would you please post a dmesg for this? They may have added an exception for the first chipset rev of the bge used on this server. There are 2 revs that I know of (so far) Ted -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED]@mgEDV.net Sent: Sunday, April 30, 2006 7:58 AM To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: FreeBSD 6.0 compat with DL320 G4 just for info: our dl320 g4 also has bge interfaces, and they work very well under 6.1-RC1 (even BETA4 was ok). but our server has been bought 2 months ago, maybe there's a newer/different chipset in it. we also have a dl320 g2 being heavily used as lan switches monitor, this server also has bge interfaces and had no problem since 1 year capturing and analyzing more than 26GB/day (avg) of nw-data on the 2nd interface and serving more than 4GB/day (avg) on the primary one (both IPv4 only). c ya ;-) ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.385 / Virus Database: 268.5.1/327 - Release Date: 4/28/2006 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: FreeBSD 6.0 compat with DL320 G4
just for info: our dl320 g4 also has bge interfaces, and they work very well under 6.1-RC1 (even BETA4 was ok). but our server has been bought 2 months ago, maybe there's a newer/different chipset in it. we also have a dl320 g2 being heavily used as lan switches monitor, this server also has bge interfaces and had no problem since 1 year capturing and analyzing more than 26GB/day (avg) of nw-data on the 2nd interface and serving more than 4GB/day (avg) on the primary one (both IPv4 only). c ya ;-) ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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 [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of William Sent: Friday, April 28, 2006 12:05 AM To: freebsd-questions@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 [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED]@mgEDV.net Sent: Thursday, April 27, 2006 5:38 AM To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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 :-) ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.385 / Virus Database: 268.5.0/325 - Release Date: 4/26/2006 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.385 / Virus Database: 268.5.1/326 - Release Date: 4/27/2006 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: FreeBSD 6.0 compat with DL320 G4
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: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of William Sent: Saturday, April 29, 2006 4:27 AM To: freebsd-questions@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 [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of William Sent: Friday, April 28, 2006 12:05 AM To: freebsd-questions@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 [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED]@mgEDV.net Sent: Thursday, April 27, 2006 5:38 AM To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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 :-) ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.385 / Virus Database: 268.5.0/325 - Release Date: 4/26/2006
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 [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of William Sent: Saturday, April 29, 2006 4:27 AM To: freebsd-questions@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 [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of William Sent: Friday, April 28, 2006 12:05 AM To: freebsd-questions@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 [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED]@mgEDV.net Sent: Thursday, April 27, 2006 5:38 AM To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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
RE: FreeBSD 6.0 compat with DL320 G4
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: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of William Sent: Saturday, April 29, 2006 9:47 AM To: Ted Mittelstaedt Cc: freebsd-questions@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 [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of William Sent: Saturday, April 29, 2006 4:27 AM To: freebsd-questions@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 [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of William Sent: Friday, April 28, 2006 12:05 AM To: freebsd-questions@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 [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED]@mgEDV.net Sent: Thursday, April 27, 2006 5:38 AM To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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
RE: FreeBSD 6.0 compat with DL320 G4
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. hi, we're using 6.1-RC1 on a DL320 G4 with raidctl, which perfectly fit's our needs. the metadata being written by the bios-fw of the onboard-controller (adaptec) is really not readable by the os, but this doesn't prevent us from having our os being installed on raid1. you only have to boot freebsd, go to the shell, use raidctl to create an ar0 using ad4 and ad6 and then install the os directly onto ar0. even booting is not an issue. [-thx 2 soren, he pointed us in the right direction upon this :-)] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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 [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED]@mgEDV.net Sent: Thursday, April 27, 2006 5:38 AM To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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 :-) ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.385 / Virus Database: 268.5.0/325 - Release Date: 4/26/2006 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: FreeBSD 6.0 compat with DL320 G4
Let me ask you this: Would you, right now, feel comfortable walking into your server room and yanking out one of the SATA drives? Then shut down the server, install the drive back in, and initiate the rebuild? I have done just that to our production Compaqs with SCSI arrays on the intelligent controller, of course I don't have to down the server to rebuild the array since the controller does it automatically when you put the drive back in. It is one of the most effective sales tools we have, we've sold several servers by doing this. I would also feel comfortable doing it to a server running the 3ware raid card. I don't know I'd feel comfortable with doing this with raidctl but I probably are going to end up testing this out since that's probably what we are going to have to end up doing with ours, at least until Soren reverse engineers the Adaptec metadata format for some future version of FreeBSD. But if I had known about this problem in advance I would never have bought the server. Ted -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED]@mgEDV.net Sent: Friday, April 28, 2006 2:30 AM To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; 'Ted Mittelstaedt' Subject: RE: FreeBSD 6.0 compat with DL320 G4 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. hi, we're using 6.1-RC1 on a DL320 G4 with raidctl, which perfectly fit's our needs. the metadata being written by the bios-fw of the onboard-controller (adaptec) is really not readable by the os, but this doesn't prevent us from having our os being installed on raid1. you only have to boot freebsd, go to the shell, use raidctl to create an ar0 using ad4 and ad6 and then install the os directly onto ar0. even booting is not an issue. [-thx 2 soren, he pointed us in the right direction upon this :-)] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.385 / Virus Database: 268.5.1/326 - Release Date: 4/27/2006 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: FreeBSD 6.0 compat with DL320 G4
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: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of William Sent: Friday, April 28, 2006 12:05 AM To: freebsd-questions@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 [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED]@mgEDV.net Sent: Thursday, April 27, 2006 5:38 AM To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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 :-) ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.385 / Virus Database: 268.5.0/325 - Release Date: 4/26/2006 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.385 / Virus Database: 268.5.1/326 - Release Date: 4/27/2006 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
FreeBSD 6.0 compat with DL320 G4
Hello list, We are currently looking for a commercial off the shelf server to roll out our servers on running FreeBSD 6.0-RELEASE. 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 If you could CC me onto any replies as I'm currently not subscribed to the list. Thank you for your time. Regards, William ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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 :-) ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: FreeBSD 6.0 compat with DL320 G4
Thanks for your email, I'm really happy to hear about the support, I'm looking at using the sata disks! I'm not sure else to ask you have covered pretty much everything. Regards, William On 27/04/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED]@mgEDV.net [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 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 :-) ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: FreeBSD 6.0 compat with DL320 G4
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: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED]@mgEDV.net Sent: Thursday, April 27, 2006 5:38 AM To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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 :-) ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.385 / Virus Database: 268.5.0/325 - Release Date: 4/26/2006 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
