Re: IBM ServeRAID support [OpenBSD installs on IBM Netfinity 4500R)

2009-02-22 Thread richardtoohey
Quoting richardtoo...@paradise.net.nz: > Quoting Alexander Yurchenko : > > > as some of you might know the ips(4) driver aimed to support IBM > > ServeRAID SATA/SCSI controllers was here starting from 4.1. but due > to > > a > > nasty bug in the code it was

Re: IBM ServeRAID support [OpenBSD installs on IBM Netfinity 4500R)

2009-02-15 Thread richardtoohey
Quoting Alexander Yurchenko : > as some of you might know the ips(4) driver aimed to support IBM > ServeRAID SATA/SCSI controllers was here starting from 4.1. but due to > a > nasty bug in the code it was not enabled on any install media. > > the snap from the feb 11 contai

IBM ServeRAID support

2009-02-11 Thread Alexander Yurchenko
as some of you might know the ips(4) driver aimed to support IBM ServeRAID SATA/SCSI controllers was here starting from 4.1. but due to a nasty bug in the code it was not enabled on any install media. the snap from the feb 11 contains the updated ips driver with that bug fixed and various other

Re: IBM ServeRaid 5i - installer unable to find disks

2008-02-15 Thread Jonathan Gray
On Fri, Feb 15, 2008 at 05:48:25AM +0100, Matt wrote: > Jonathan Gray schreef: >> grange@ the author of the driver says there is still a data corruption >> bug in ips, so rather than enabling it on ramdisks I'll disable >> it in GENERIC tonight. >> > > Am I understanding correctly grange's info

Re: IBM ServeRaid 5i - installer unable to find disks

2008-02-14 Thread Matt
Jonathan Gray schreef: grange@ the author of the driver says there is still a data corruption bug in ips, so rather than enabling it on ramdisks I'll disable it in GENERIC tonight. Am I understanding correctly grange's info made you decide the ips driver should not be used _at all_ ? I was

Re: IBM ServeRaid 5i - installer unable to find disks

2008-02-14 Thread Jonathan Gray
On Thu, Feb 14, 2008 at 06:04:16PM +0100, Matt wrote: > Fredrik Hansson schreef: >> Matt wrote: >>> Can anyone shine some light on how to actually make this controller work >>> with OpenBSD? >>> Or am I overlooking something obvious? >> >> ips is not included in the ramdisk kernels. >> >> I had th

Re: IBM ServeRaid 5i - installer unable to find disks

2008-02-14 Thread c l
I had to create a custom bsd.rd for the ips driver as well. Here's how I did it. Go to /usr/src/sys/arch/i386/conf. Edit RAMDISK_CD to include your changes.install crunchgen Go to /usr/src/distrib/crunch. Run "make" and "make install". Install distrib/special Go to /usr/src/distrib/special.

Re: IBM ServeRaid 5i - installer unable to find disks

2008-02-14 Thread Matt
Fredrik Hansson schreef: Matt wrote: Can anyone shine some light on how to actually make this controller work with OpenBSD? Or am I overlooking something obvious? ips is not included in the ramdisk kernels. I had the same problem and my solution was to copy the two lines for ips from /usr/s

Re: IBM ServeRaid 5i - installer unable to find disks

2008-02-14 Thread Jonathan Gray
s fine but when I boot up the OpenBSD cd it does not see any > disks. > > dmesg shows: > > pci5 at pchb7 bus 8 > "IBM ServeRAID" rev 0x00 at pci5 dev 2 function 0 not configured > > Reading the man page for ips(4) I read this: > > - > > Although the

Re: IBM ServeRaid 5i - installer unable to find disks

2008-02-14 Thread Fredrik Hansson
Matt wrote: Can anyone shine some light on how to actually make this controller work with OpenBSD? Or am I overlooking something obvious? ips is not included in the ramdisk kernels. I had the same problem and my solution was to copy the two lines for ips from /usr/src/sys/arch/i386/conf/GENE

IBM ServeRaid 5i - installer unable to find disks

2008-02-14 Thread Matt
i5 at pchb7 bus 8 "IBM ServeRAID" rev 0x00 at pci5 dev 2 function 0 not configured Reading the man page for ips(4) I read this: - Although the controllers are actual RAID controllers, the driver makes them look just like SCSI controllers. All RAID configuration is done through the cont

Re: IBM ServeRAID 4Lx

2007-05-30 Thread Martin Reindl
Dominik Zalewski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Dear All, > > I'm going to install OpenBSD 4.1 on IBM xSeries 206. It has raid controller > IBM ServerRAID 4Lx. I see that ips driver is supported > http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ips&apropos=0&sektion=4&manpath=OpenBSD+4.1&arch=i386&f

IBM ServeRAID 4Lx

2007-05-29 Thread Dominik Zalewski
Dear All, I'm going to install OpenBSD 4.1 on IBM xSeries 206. It has raid controller IBM ServerRAID 4Lx. I see that ips driver is supported http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ips&apropos=0&sektion=4&manpath=OpenBSD+4.1&arch=i386&format=html Anyways, does anybody had problems with i

OpenBSD 4.1 and IBM ServeRaid-5i

2007-05-08 Thread Fredrik Hansson
Hi all, Trying to install OpenBSD 4.1 on an IBM xSeries 345 with an IBM ServeRAID-5i controller, but no disks are found during installation. The disks are set to raid 5 at the moment and seems to be working fine according to the raid configuration tools provided by IBM. http://www.openbsd.org

Re: IBM ServeRAID 6i

2007-03-02 Thread Danny Kjærgaard
yeah, there is a online array on the discs. -Original Message- From: Alexander Yurchenko [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Fri 3/2/2007 11:36 AM To: Danny Kjfrgaard Cc: misc@openbsd.org Subject: Re: IBM ServeRAID 6i On Fri, Mar 02, 2007 at 10:38:05AM +0100, Danny Kj?rgaard wrote: >

Re: IBM ServeRAID 6i

2007-03-02 Thread Alexander Yurchenko
On Fri, Mar 02, 2007 at 10:38:05AM +0100, Danny Kj?rgaard wrote: > Hi... > > > I have a IBM x225 that i would love to install openbsd on. I did a try with > the snapshot from 3/1/07 and it boots but cant find the scsi drives. I threw > in a ide disk and did the install on this one. I know that th

IBM ServeRAID 6i

2007-03-02 Thread Danny Kjærgaard
Hi... I have a IBM x225 that i would love to install openbsd on. I did a try with the snapshot from 3/1/07 and it boots but cant find the scsi drives. I threw in a ide disk and did the install on this one. I know that the ips driver is being implemented for the 4.1 release, but since the cvs got

Re: IBM ServeRAID

2007-01-23 Thread Joachim Schipper
On Tue, Jan 23, 2007 at 10:48:20AM +, Stuart Henderson wrote: > On 2007/01/23 11:14, Joachim Schipper wrote: > > [1] Don't update in the middle of a hackathon, and don't be too quick to > > update after major filesystem changes - which will be soon. > > You could always wait a couple of days b

Re: IBM ServeRAID

2007-01-23 Thread Stuart Henderson
On 2007/01/23 11:14, Joachim Schipper wrote: > [1] Don't update in the middle of a hackathon, and don't be too quick to > update after major filesystem changes - which will be soon. You could always wait a couple of days between downloading and installing if you want to increase the chance of some

Re: IBM ServeRAID

2007-01-23 Thread Joachim Schipper
On Mon, Jan 22, 2007 at 08:36:34PM -0600, Damian Wiest wrote: > On Mon, Jan 22, 2007 at 08:57:58PM -0500, Nick Holland wrote: > > Peter Matulis wrote: > > > Hi. I would like to install OpenBSD 4.0 on an IBM eServer (xSeries 220) > > > that contains a ServeRAID SCSI controller. I see that in Open

Re: IBM ServeRAID

2007-01-22 Thread Damian Wiest
On Mon, Jan 22, 2007 at 08:57:58PM -0500, Nick Holland wrote: > Peter Matulis wrote: > > Hi. I would like to install OpenBSD 4.0 on an IBM eServer (xSeries 220) > > that contains a ServeRAID SCSI controller. I see that in OpenBSD > > Current a driver has been added (ips). Does that mean I cann

Re: IBM ServeRAID

2007-01-22 Thread Nick Holland
Peter Matulis wrote: > Hi. I would like to install OpenBSD 4.0 on an IBM eServer (xSeries 220) > that contains a ServeRAID SCSI controller. I see that in OpenBSD > Current a driver has been added (ips). Does that mean I cannot install > OpenBSD 4.0 and have access to the controller on this ma

IBM ServeRAID

2007-01-22 Thread Peter Matulis
Hi. I would like to install OpenBSD 4.0 on an IBM eServer (xSeries 220) that contains a ServeRAID SCSI controller. I see that in OpenBSD Current a driver has been added (ips). Does that mean I cannot install OpenBSD 4.0 and have access to the controller on this machine? Any comments welcome

Re: OpenBSD with IBM ServeRaid Card

2005-09-03 Thread Toni Mueller
Sorry, On Fri, 02.09.2005 at 10:58:57 -0400, Michael Shalayeff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > i know. i can't read: ... > futhermore nowhere in your email you even mention docs... my bad - obviously I can't _write_. But anyway, I've written about this stuff on this list several times before, and

Re: OpenBSD with IBM ServeRaid Card

2005-09-02 Thread Michael Shalayeff
Making, drinking tea and reading an opus magnum from Toni Mueller: > Hi, > > On Thu, 01.09.2005 at 13:15:54 -0400, Michael Shalayeff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > we do not want their driver. > > i betcha it'd be a piece of goo size of minneapolis > > and we would not be able to maintain it ev

Re: OpenBSD with IBM ServeRaid Card

2005-09-01 Thread Toni Mueller
Hi, On Thu, 01.09.2005 at 13:15:54 -0400, Michael Shalayeff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > we do not want their driver. > i betcha it'd be a piece of goo size of minneapolis > and we would not be able to maintain it ever since... well, I didn't ask them to write a driver, but asked for docs to be

Re: OpenBSD with IBM ServeRaid Card

2005-09-01 Thread Michael Shalayeff
gt; reason, too. > > > But I can't see any IBM ServeRaid card (SCSI) in OpenBSD support list, > > ( http://www.openbsd.org/i386.html#hardware ) > > Seems FreeBSD can Support with ips(4) > > ( http://www.tw.freebsd.org/releases/5.4R/hardware-i386.html#DISK ) > >

Re: OpenBSD with IBM ServeRaid Card

2005-09-01 Thread Toni Mueller
Hello, On Sat, 20.08.2005 at 11:54:27 +0800, range <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I plan to buy IBM XSeries Server, short answer: Don't, but tell your IBM rep the machine count and the reason, too. > But I can't see any IBM ServeRaid card (SCSI) in OpenBSD support list, >

Re: OpenBSD with IBM ServeRaid Card

2005-08-20 Thread Roger Neth Jr
From: range <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: misc@openbsd.org Subject: OpenBSD with IBM ServeRaid Card Date: Sat, 20 Aug 2005 11:54:27 +0800 Hi: I plan to buy IBM XSeries Server, But I can't see any IBM ServeRaid card (SCSI) in OpenBSD support list, ( http://www.openbsd.org/i386.html#hardw

Re: OpenBSD with IBM ServeRaid Card

2005-08-20 Thread Richard Welty
On Sat, 20 Aug 2005 11:54:27 +0800 range <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi: > I plan to buy IBM XSeries Server, > But I can't see any IBM ServeRaid card (SCSI) in OpenBSD support list, > ( http://www.openbsd.org/i386.html#hardware ) > Seems FreeBSD can Su

OpenBSD with IBM ServeRaid Card

2005-08-19 Thread range
Hi: I plan to buy IBM XSeries Server, But I can't see any IBM ServeRaid card (SCSI) in OpenBSD support list, ( http://www.openbsd.org/i386.html#hardware ) Seems FreeBSD can Support with ips(4) ( http://www.tw.freebsd.org/releases/5.4R/hardware-i386.html#DISK ) If any one can give me some su