Re: Debian support for HP ProLiant DL380 G5
Simon wrote:
> Hi There,
>
> We are interested in purchasing a HP ProLiant DL380 G5 server, does
> anyone have any news as to if this server works or not?
>
> Here is the link to the HP website. Looking thru it is a wicked piece of
> kit:
>
>
http://h10010.www1.hp.com/wwpc/us/en/ss/WF05a/15351-241434-241475-241475-f79-1121516.html
The only problem might be the SCSI controllers.
the kernel driver cciss should be able to drive the P400 and E200 Smart Array
controllers. no problem with that according to the device-id table in the
kernel sources. I'm using kernels >= 2.6.16 here with Smart Array 6i and
Smart Array 6400 without problems.
this is the table from my copy of linux/drivers/block/cciss/cciss.c as found
in 2.6.18-rc4-gef7d1b24 - latest Linus Torvalds linux-2.6.git as of
this morning:
/* board_id = Subsystem Device ID & Vendor ID
* product = Marketing Name for the board
* access = Address of the struct of function pointers
*/
static struct board_type products[] = {
{0x40700E11, "Smart Array 5300", &SA5_access},
{0x40800E11, "Smart Array 5i", &SA5B_access},
{0x40820E11, "Smart Array 532", &SA5B_access},
{0x40830E11, "Smart Array 5312", &SA5B_access},
{0x409A0E11, "Smart Array 641", &SA5_access},
{0x409B0E11, "Smart Array 642", &SA5_access},
{0x409C0E11, "Smart Array 6400", &SA5_access},
{0x409D0E11, "Smart Array 6400 EM", &SA5_access},
{0x40910E11, "Smart Array 6i", &SA5_access},
{0x3225103C, "Smart Array P600", &SA5_access},
{0x3223103C, "Smart Array P800", &SA5_access},
{0x3234103C, "Smart Array P400", &SA5_access},
{0x3235103C, "Smart Array P400i", &SA5_access},
{0x3211103C, "Smart Array E200i", &SA5_access},
{0x3212103C, "Smart Array E200", &SA5_access},
{0x3213103C, "Smart Array E200i", &SA5_access},
{0x3214103C, "Smart Array E200i", &SA5_access},
{0x3215103C, "Smart Array E200i", &SA5_access},
};
As an aside: why the DL380? The DL385 is much "better", IMO.
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