From: "Henning Brauer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
* Daniel Ouellet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2005-09-29 22:20]:
I was looking at the HP DL-145 G2 with SCSI on them and I also saw the
new Sun X4100.
Looking at the less then complete technical information on the Sun
server, I don't see the details of the chip set use in that server,
network card, etc. So, I can't search to see if OpenBSD may work on it
or not.
afaik the 4100 and 4200 use the slightly aged AMD chipset, same thing
as in the HP DL145 G1, the V20z, and the IBM - should just work.
True, that bit should just work as should the nics since its just 4x em.
However, the onboard storage controller probably wont work out of the box
right now. It's a SAS variant of the chips supported by the mpt driver.
According to marco it isn't as trivial as adding the pci ids to the driver
to make it work either. I'll gladly accept a donation of a x4100 or x4200 to
make it work ;)
The only other interesting thing in these machines is the ipmi stuff and the
management controller.
I am more curious about the 2100 actually. Finally a vendor got it and
made a (apparently) decent single-CPU amd64 1U machine with a reasonable
price tag. I am uncertain what chipset they use, might be nForce, might
be Via.
Sun took the nforce 4 ultra chipset and stuck it in a 1u case.
As long as both GigEs and the SATA stuff works, and there's no
other showstopper, I don't care.
The sata stuff probably works, but I doubt the nforce ethernet will. The
second nic appears to be a bge.
If anyone is able to get his hands on one, please report :)
Yes please.
