Hi.

Peter Moody <peter@famndamily.net> wrote:

> I've inherited this system (or systems), and I've been tasked with
> installing either net or freebsd on them.
> 
> The system configuration is, more or less, like this.   
> two compaq proliant 1850r's, with a fiber channel connecting them, and a
> compaq smartarray raid drive shared between them.
> Previously, these machines had unixware 7.1 installed on them, in this
> configuration, but I'm told it was a nightmare to maintain, and the
> configuration was subsequently dropped.
> 
> Anyway, I'm wondering if you can tell me if netbsd supports this shared
> raid configuration, and where I might find some documentation about the
> install proccess and whatnot.

It depends on what kind of fibre channel controller you have in the servers.
If the 1850Rs have more than one CPU installed, then for the moment you're
better off going with FreeBSD - NetBSD/i386's SMP support is still under
development and won't be ready for a while.

Andrew