On Fri, Apr 13, 2007 at 08:20:07AM +0200, Vim Visual wrote: > Hi, > > I'm not concerned about the library, I'm almost sure it'll work in > OpenBSD -it was written to be very portable-; it's the raid controller > what will finally be the key to the OS... I forgot to give details, > sorry. It's an Areca Raid Controller arc-1220
that card works fine in openbsd. it even has bio support out of the box. > Yes, the OS is not that important, the cluster will not have a public > IP and is already sitting behind a firewall (don't ask me which one, > please, it's a RHL one, it was not my personal choice) and I've got > obsd installed on my laptop to do the data analysis of the results but > I was looking forward to having obsd on the cluster... i suspect the library that talks to the GRAPE card requires access to the hardware registers. if it uses the same mechanisms as X, then it might just work, but i don't like your chances. > Today I'll boot the cd and see whether the controller is configured... it'll be fine :) dlg