From owner-freebsd-amd64@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jan 10 02:19:30 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 39ED016A420 for ; Tue, 10 Jan 2006 02:19:30 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from dpz@ack.berkeley.edu) Received: from malcolm.berkeley.edu (malcolm.Berkeley.EDU [128.32.206.239]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D3A8443D45 for ; Tue, 10 Jan 2006 02:19:29 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from dpz@ack.berkeley.edu) Received: from [166.172.58.133] (mobile-166-172-133-058.mycingular.net [166.172.58.133] (may be forged)) (authenticated bits=0) by malcolm.berkeley.edu (8.13.3/8.13.3) with ESMTP id k0A2JGMb061419 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-SHA bits=128 verify=NO) for ; Mon, 9 Jan 2006 18:19:27 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dpz@ack.berkeley.edu) Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v623) In-Reply-To: <95B70169-CDE3-4A50-80B7-84409D7A4724@khera.org> References: <95B70169-CDE3-4A50-80B7-84409D7A4724@khera.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Message-Id: Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: David Paul Zimmerman Date: Mon, 9 Jan 2006 18:19:04 -0800 To: FreeBSD AMD list X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.623) X-Greylist: Sender succeded SMTP AUTH authentication, not delayed by milter-greylist-1.6 (malcolm.berkeley.edu [128.32.206.239]); Mon, 09 Jan 2006 18:19:29 -0800 (PST) Subject: Re: Sun X4100 LSI1064 support X-BeenThere: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting FreeBSD to the AMD64 platform List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 10 Jan 2006 02:19:30 -0000 On Jan 9, 2006, at 8:24 AM, Vivek Khera wrote: > On Jan 6, 2006, at 8:46 PM, David Paul Zimmerman wrote: > >> Hi, all. We recently purchased a Sun X4100, which has the built-in >> LSI1064 SAS adapter. So far a lot of stuff seems to work: >> >> - autoboots the amd64 6.0-RELEASE disc1 CD >> - USB keyboard and VGA monitor connected to the back work great >> - gets all the way to the FreeBSD setup menu > > Prior to buying mine I did some research and found that SAS support is > probably a ways off, unfortunately. So I purchased mine without disks > in the hopes of booting and running from the RAID card.... however, I > missed the fact that it only has low-profile slots and the LSI cards > are not available in low profile. > > Are you planning to run a RAID card on yours? If so, which one? The > only one that seems to have a chance of working for me is the Adaptec > 2230SLP (I need dual channel). No, I'm just going to live off of an external USB drive for now. I bought our X4100 because of the drop-dead gorgeous specs, presuming that FreeBSD would support it someday, and could be a test system for development efforts. I've got no production plans at the moment; the Wiki that was going to be its sole tenant is going off to milk cows on a Web farm instead. For now, I'm just happy that the SAS adapter is the only unsupported device that I've run across. dp