FreeBSD 5.4-i386, isp(4) and an EVA3000

[Scott Long]

Rainer Duffner wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I've just installed FreeBSD 5.4 on a HP blade, connected to our EVA 3000 
> SAN.
> 
> The sysinstall-kernel doesn't have the ispfw-module and it didn't 
> recognize the LUNs - is there a way to load that module from the 
> original install-medium or do I have to bake my own?
> OK, so this is the test-blade that has a hard-disk inside and I 
> installed on that, built my own kernel that had ispfw(4), booted and ... 
> couldn't get to FreeBSD, because it had now found the SAN and moved the 
> "old" da0 to da8 or so...
> 
> Didum...Re-install, this time I see a lot of LUNs from the SAN, and 
> install on da0, all went well, I can boot that - beautiful, compared to 
> the likes of RHEL...


Read the section in /sys/conf/NOTES that talks about wiring down
SCSI IDs and LUNs to particular device numbers.

Scott