Date: Thu, 29 Dec 2005 10:15:42 -0600 From: Jonathan Fosburgh <syjef@mdanderson.org> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Cc: "Gestur A. Grjetarsson" <gestur@ec.is> Subject: Re: FreeBSD on IBM Blade Center? Message-ID: <200512291015.44416.syjef@mdanderson.org> In-Reply-To: <636A75F5E9CA8741A3136582949F95876E9E25@postur.ecweb.local> References: <636A75F5E9CA8741A3136582949F95876E9E25@postur.ecweb.local>
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--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--
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