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Frank Che 写道:
> Hi Emmy,
>
> The HP DL380 G5 server is listed on the HCL as certified, with a link 
> to drivers provided by HP for this server. Have you try those drivers?
>
> I visited HP website for Solaris drivers for DL380 G5, found the 
> 'CPQary3' driver on this page: 
> http://h50176.www5.hp.com/support/397307-AA1/more_info_local_24318.html 
> . It claims to support both 'Smart Array P400' and 'Smart Array 6400' 
> controllers.
>
> PS: I'm not in the storage-discuss alias. My colleague forwarded your 
> mail to me.
>
> Any more questions on the Sun HCL, please let me know.
>
> Regards,
> Frank.
>
>>>
>>> Subject:
>>> Re: [storage-discuss] COMSTAR ready for production use?
>>> From:
>>> Emmy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>>> Date:
>>> Sun, 16 Mar 2008 13:26:06 -0700 (PDT)
>>> To:
>>> [email protected]
>>>
>>> To:
>>> [email protected]
>>>
>>>
>>> Okay, I hit a bit of a brick wall 10 minutes in to this project... 
>>> The server I have (a brand new HP DL380G5) doesn't seem to work with 
>>> Nevada (or Solaris 10, for that matter). It gets to disk selection, 
>>> and the list is empty - so I assume it does not see my Smart Array 
>>> P400 SAS RAID controller. Funnily enough, I also have a Smart Array 
>>> 6400 Ultra320 RAID controller in there too, with logical drives 
>>> defined, but it doesn't see that either - even though the HCL says 
>>> that the 6400 is supported... However, even if it saw the 6400 I 
>>> couldn't use it (my JBOD is attached to it) - the OS *must* reside 
>>> on the P400 system drives... Anyone know of a driver update that 
>>> might help here?
>>>
>>> I also had another question around caching. Many "high performance" 
>>> storage system use a relatively large amount of cache to speed up 
>>> transfers. This can have a significant impact on performance, 
>>> especially when we're talking about 16GB+ of cache. Can COMSTAR use 
>>> inband cache (or is it planned)?
>>>
>>> Thanks again!
>>>
>>> emmy
>>>
>>>
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