Date: Sun, 23 Jul 2006 18:19:41 +0200 From: "Simon L. Nielsen" <simon@FreeBSD.org> To: Martin Nilsson <martin@gneto.com> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: New Dell PowerEdge 2900 Message-ID: <20060723161940.GB1088@zaphod.nitro.dk> In-Reply-To: <44C39E06.80202@gneto.com> References: <20060722114052.cwsuco6u80o4okkw@mail.bafirst.com> <44C39E06.80202@gneto.com>
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On 2006.07.23 18:04:22 +0200, Martin Nilsson wrote: > 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! That's not really true, and Dell does care (at least a bit) about non-Windows customers. E.g. see http://cvsweb.freebsd.org/src/sys/dev/mfi/mfi.c (the RAID driver for PERC 5/i: Sponsored by: Dell, Ironport -- Simon L. Nielsen
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