From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Dec 28 13:27:57 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E358A16A41F for ; Wed, 28 Dec 2005 13:27:56 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from gestur@ec.is) Received: from larfur.svaka.net (larfur.svaka.net [213.176.155.150]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6087F43D75 for ; Wed, 28 Dec 2005 13:27:36 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from gestur@ec.is) Received: (from root@localhost) by larfur.svaka.net (MX.SVAKA.NET) id jBSDRRgq018490 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Wed, 28 Dec 2005 13:27:27 GMT (envelope-from gestur@ec.is) Received: from ipfw.ecweb.local (ipfw.ec.is [213.220.85.70]) by larfur.svaka.net (mx1.svaka.net) with ESMTP id jBSDRLHL018236 for ; Wed, 28 Dec 2005 13:27:26 GMT (envelope-from gestur@ec.is) Received: from ec.is (postur.ecweb.local [192.168.25.11]) by ipfw.ecweb.local (8.13.3/8.13.3) with ESMTP id jBSDUdx5023602 for ; Wed, 28 Dec 2005 13:30:39 GMT (envelope-from gestur@ec.is) X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft Exchange V6.5.7226.0 Content-class: urn:content-classes:message MIME-Version: 1.0 Date: Wed, 28 Dec 2005 13:32:44 -0000 Message-ID: <636A75F5E9CA8741A3136582949F95876E9E25@postur.ecweb.local> X-MS-Has-Attach: X-MS-TNEF-Correlator: Thread-Topic: FreeBSD on IBM Blade Center? Thread-Index: AcYLsy71UmWzGElvS5WrqdVsiRCnRQ== From: "Gestur A. Grjetarsson" To: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-91.1 tests=AWL,FORGED_RCVD_HELO,HTML_70_80, HTML_MESSAGE,RCVD_IN_DSBL,RCVD_IN_SORBS_SOCKS,USER_IN_WHITELIST scanned=Wed, 28 Dec 2005 13:27:26 +0000 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.1.0 (2005-09-13) on larfur.svaka.net X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV 0.87.1/1218/Mon Dec 26 13:46:59 2005 on larfur.svaka.net X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV 0.87.1/1218/Mon Dec 26 13:46:59 2005 on ipfw.ecweb.local X-Virus-Status: Clean X-scanner: Scanned by Xamime-LT 0.1.5 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Subject: FreeBSD on IBM Blade Center? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 28 Dec 2005 13:27:57 -0000 Hi =20 I have IBM Blade with Qlogic 2312 adapters using DS400 SAN =20 now I have learned that after over 10 years of good FreeBSD experience = on various sorts of hardware, I can't use FreeBSD anymore as it does'nt = work on IBM Blade. I have read alot on this problem trying to solve this problem and done = alot of testing and hacking but without any progress. =20 so I have two questions: =20 is FreeBSD going to support IBM Blade? =20 if it is going to support and work on IBM Blade, can you give me an = estimation on when it will be ready to run on IBM Blade? =20 kve=F0ja Gestur Iceland