From owner-freebsd-stable Mon Jun 19 9: 1:51 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mail.wolves.k12.mo.us (mail.wolves.k12.mo.us [207.160.214.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CB3FD37B82D for ; Mon, 19 Jun 2000 09:01:46 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from cdillon@wolves.k12.mo.us) Received: from mail.wolves.k12.mo.us (cdillon@mail.wolves.k12.mo.us [207.160.214.1]) by mail.wolves.k12.mo.us (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id LAA69026; Mon, 19 Jun 2000 11:00:30 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from cdillon@wolves.k12.mo.us) Date: Mon, 19 Jun 2000 11:00:29 -0500 (CDT) From: Chris Dillon To: Little geek Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Feedback on ML 530 servers In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, 19 Jun 2000, Little geek wrote: > Hola, I have here beside me a Compaq ML 530 with dual 800 pIII > xeon's, 512 MB RAM, 6 pluggable U2 SCSI HD's, Compaq 3200 RAID > controller and a 20/40 DLT drive... > > I took a look at the HCL and it seems the my hardware is supported > for FreeBSD 4.0, but How about 3.x? > > I am going to be using this box in a production environment and I > am looking for the best possible solution for ease of > administration and maintenance. > > What release of FreeBSD do you guys recommend that I go with? And > is there anything out of the norm I should be aware of with the > hardware I listed above? > > Thanks alot for your time. > > -The Little Geek If you could try 4.0-STABLE out on this thing and report back to the list wether or not it works, I, for one, would be ultra-grateful. I'm actually more curious wether the on-board SCSI controller will work. We may be buying one of these soon and I'd like to swap out the current Proliant 3000 I have running FreeBSD with this thing if it will work. Ours will only be single-processor using the onboard SCSI controller, unlike yours with Dual procs and RAID controller, though. -- Chris Dillon - cdillon@wolves.k12.mo.us - cdillon@inter-linc.net FreeBSD: The fastest and most stable server OS on the planet. For Intel x86 and Alpha architectures. ( http://www.freebsd.org ) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message