Srebrenko Sehic wrote:
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.
Thanks for the information.
I will be testing current on the DL-145 G2 soon and I sure was hopping
that I got that information before buying the box last week. I did the
research, but oh well.
It was between two box last week, IBM 326 and the HP DL 145 G2. I pick
the HP as I have the G1 and it was working very well for a long time.
SO, I took changes with the G2 version. I knew about the raiser, but it
was only pointing that for the SCSI version in the archive and that
controller is connected in that slot, not the same where the PCI-X is,
but in any case, that's what it is.
I guess you wouldn't have the DMESG for the IBM 326, they do not sale
the 325 anymore, by any chances right?
Daniel.
