On 01/10/2005, at 10:04 AM, Sam Vaughan wrote:
On 30/09/2005, at 6:58 PM, David Gwynne wrote:
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.
When you say that the onboard storage controller probably won't
work, do
you mean that managing it from inside OpenBSD won't work, or that it
probably won't even be possible to boot?
I mean our mpt driver doesn't attach to this hardware, therefore you
wont be able to use the disks in openbsd. Aside from that there is no
bioctl support in the mpt driver (yet).
If it's just the former, then the IPMI controller would still allow
you
to set up RAID status notification, reconfigure the disks and so
forth.
While that is theoretically possible, I would bet money that it is
not hooked up that way inside the machine. The disk and volume
management would be done by the mpt controller, ipmi wouldnt be
involved in that. It would be interesting to see a dump of ipmi in
these machines.
I need to choose a server in the next couple of months and the x4200
looks like very good value for money. I'd really like to be able
to run
OpenBSD on it.
You'll need an extra storage controller and external disks, or diffs
for mpt first :)
dlg
