On 12/9/05, Uwe Dippel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > So you probably saw mine as well, Proliant 350. > I have no solution yet, but a few more boxes rolling in that need more > than that single Broadcom on-board piece. > > Is this a HP problem or an OpenBSD problem ? I'll try Linux on the next > box; but surely prefer to run OpenBSD ! If you happen to find a working > solution or a working, readily available NIC, please keep me informed !
It seems like a OpenBSD problem. If you are looking for HP hardware to run OpenBSD on, here are some of mine experiences. For the impatient: you will have difficulties finding a latest HP box to run and perform good on OpenBSD unless you go -current. If someone is interested in dmesgs for these systems, please let me know. 1) DL145 (G2), SCSI/mpt = showstopper, OpenBSD can't see the raiser board and hence the LSI controller seated in it (tested on i386/3.8-STABLE and -current) 2) DL145 (G2), SATA/nForce4 = works, but the disk is slow and the CPU spends 100% of time in kernel with heavy disk activity. (tested on i386/3.8-STABLE) 3) DL320 (G3), SATA/Intel 82801FR = works, but the disk is slow and the CPU spends 100% of time in kernel with heavy disk activity. (tested on i386/3.8-STABLE and -current) 4) DL360 (G4/G4p) and DL380 (G4), SCSI/RAID/SmartArray P600/6i/6400 = works (see * below), up kernel = ok; mp kernel = has performance issues; 5) DL385, SCSI/RAID/SmartArray P600/6i/6400 = showstopper, OpenBSD can't see the raiser board and hence the RAID controller seated in it (tested on amd64/3.8-STABLE and -current) 6) DL580 (G3), SCSI/RAID/SmartArray 64xx = works (see * below); tested on i386/3.8-current, mp, 4 x XEON. Issues with built-in bge cards. 7) BL45P, SCSI/RAID/SmartArray 64xx = works (see * below); tested on amd64/3.8-STABLE, mp, 2 x dual-core Opteron. Box has 4 interfaces; OpenBSD can only see the first 2. * Disk access is slow and the CPU spends 100% of time in kernel with heavy disk activity. Performance is greatly improved in -current and there is support for SAS (Serial Attached Storage) RAID cards as well. Some kernel error messages are printed when the box boots and when you do a newfs.
