From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Dec 29 16:16:33 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 3CBFB16A41F for ; Thu, 29 Dec 2005 16:16:33 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from syjef@mdanderson.org) Received: from mail.mdanderson.org (mail.mdanderson.org [143.111.251.38]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DE43D43DC1 for ; Thu, 29 Dec 2005 16:16:14 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from syjef@mdanderson.org) Received: by jef-nt.mdacc.tmc.edu (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 431E3BC63; Thu, 29 Dec 2005 10:15:48 -0600 (CST) From: Jonathan Fosburgh Organization: UT MD Anderson Cancer Center To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Thu, 29 Dec 2005 10:15:42 -0600 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.1 References: <636A75F5E9CA8741A3136582949F95876E9E25@postur.ecweb.local> In-Reply-To: <636A75F5E9CA8741A3136582949F95876E9E25@postur.ecweb.local> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="nextPart1249863.H3qW2XboVe"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200512291015.44416.syjef@mdanderson.org> Cc: "Gestur A. Grjetarsson" Subject: Re: 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: Thu, 29 Dec 2005 16:16:33 -0000 --nextPart1249863.H3qW2XboVe Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline On Wednesday 28 December 2005 07:32, Gestur A. Grjetarsson wrote: > Hi > > I have IBM Blade with Qlogic 2312 adapters using DS400 SAN > > 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 probl= em > and done alot of testing and hacking but without any progress. > > so I have two questions: > > is FreeBSD going to support IBM Blade? > > 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? The blade center is a bizarre beast and it is difficult to make the officia= lly=20 supported Operating Systems work correctly with it. We had difficulties=20 making AIX work properly on the JS20 blade, for instance. With IBM hardwar= e,=20 it is best to stick with officially supported products. Sometimes, IBM=20 doesn't support something for a reason... I would be (pleasantly) surprised to laern you were able to attach FreeBSD = to=20 IBM storage. Of course, IBM will provide you with no help in either of=20 these, and I wouldn't venture to guess if you can do concurrent maintenance= =20 on your DS4000 with FreeBSD running. =2D-=20 Jonathan Fosburgh AIX and Storage Administrator UT MD Anderson Cancer Center Houston, TX=20 --nextPart1249863.H3qW2XboVe Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQBDtAuwqUvQmqp7omYRAvLlAKCUxe4h0FGHTVN4MWxf8324amokVQCfb+A4 CqA2o7IkEC93B8O6JXY+eOg= =aSE+ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart1249863.H3qW2XboVe--