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Date:      Fri, 17 Aug 2001 09:00:15 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Matthew Jacob <mjacob@feral.com>
To:        "Kenneth D. Merry" <ken@kdm.org>
Cc:        Jonathan Delgado <delgado@cvrc.mgh.harvard.edu>, <hardware@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: SCA backplane
Message-ID:  <20010817085958.C70594-100000@wonky.feral.com>
In-Reply-To: <20010817091322.A45414@panzer.kdm.org>

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On Fri, 17 Aug 2001, Kenneth D. Merry wrote:

> On Fri, Aug 17, 2001 at 10:20:01 -0400, Jonathan Delgado wrote:
> > I am considering a Supermicro 6040G "SuperServer" as the base for a new
> > system that I need to build. The hardware seems pretty swank, and one of
> > its features is 4 hot-plug (same as hot-swap?) U160 SCA bays/backplane with
> > a QLogic GEM354 management controller. I have built many systems before,
> > but this is the first time I would have ever used a SCSI backplane. So if
> > anyone has had any experience with them (or like products) I have a couple
> > questions:
> >
> > Is this an item that should behave transparently to FreeBSD?
>
> Yes.

Actually, the GEM chip might even show up as an ses(4) addressable instance.


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