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Subject: Re: New Dell PowerEdge 2900
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eculp@bafirst.com wrote:
> Does anyone know of any outstanding issues with the Dell PowerEdge 2900 
> that comes with the
> 
> PERC 5/i disk controller
> Dual Embedded Broadcom® NetXtreme II 5708 Gigabit Ethernet NIC's
> 300GB, SAS, 3.5-inch, 10K RPM Hard Drive
> Memory 4GB 533MHz (4x1GB)

Why don't you buy a system from a vendor who knows FreeBSD and can tell 
you what parts will work and how well supported they are?

There is a long list at: http://www.freebsd.org/commercial/hardware.html

Dell is for people who don't care what's inside the box and they tend to 
run Windows!

/Martin