IBM x345 + EXP400

[J.Molinger]

Keep in mind that the ips driver can give you some trouble in the 5.2.1.
branch. The ips.h was wrong, so that the serveraid was not recoqnized. Use
the latest 5.2 current and then updated to 5.2.1 release, will keeping the
ips drivers from the current source.
Also important is that the ips driver doesn't support the scsi pass-through
bus. So if you use a tape drive (or LTO / DLTO etc) use the onboard
controller (LSI). The ServerRAID 6M is a hell of a card, very fast in RAID
5!!. Uses the latest Xscale processor from intel and has standard 256mb
battery-cache onboard.



-----Oorspronkelijk bericht-----
Van: eric-list-freebsd-scsi at catastrophe.net
[mailto:eric-list-freebsd-scsi at catastrophe.net] 
Verzonden: donderdag 12 augustus 2004 7:52
Aan: J.Molinger
CC: freebsd-scsi at freebsd.org
Onderwerp: Re: IBM x345 + EXP400

On Thu, 2004-08-12 at 07:45:24 +0200, J.Molinger proclaimed...

> I have approx. 8 IBM x345 machines running FreeBSD (5.2.1 release). They
> have all a ServeRaid 6M controller because there is also a LTO drive
> connected. Works fine no problem. What kind of RAID solution are you
having.
> We also have the EXP400 (very nice indeed!!). 

I'm not sure of the exact ServeRaid controller model -- it's
probably a 6M or the model right below that (if there is such a
thing!).

Did you have to do any magic besides what you send in the url?

Also, slightly offtopic for this group, but I've seen an x345 dual
processor "freeze" after a brand new installation once the console
comes up. Going into single-user mode makes things freeze when the
prompt for what shell I'd like to use comes up.

> I should go for the 5.x Freebsd. 5.3 will be released very shortly.
> The ServeRAID cd works. If else you can configure RAID1 through the bios
of
> the LSI controller.

I'll try it in about 12 hours :)