Date: Thu, 14 Dec 2006 14:23:56 -0800 From: Jay Chandler <chandler@chapman.edu> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Dell 2950 & 1950 Message-ID: <4581CEFC.2010801@chapman.edu> In-Reply-To: <20061214101951.269c6303.wmoran@collaborativefusion.com> References: <b10ead7f0612140638x174d205fge2688458188c15d@mail.gmail.com> <20061214101951.269c6303.wmoran@collaborativefusion.com>
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Bill Moran wrote: > In response to "Peter Grigor" <peter.grigor@gmail.com>: > > >> I've just gotten some quotes on a few dell machines and I was wondering now >> if freebsd 6.x is able to run on them properly. Perc/5i cards and 64-bit >> Intel chips are my worries :) >> >> Anyone have any experiences they'd like to share? Anyone successfully >> running mysql on an IA64 architecture with Freebsd? >> > > We're in the early stages of deployment with these. None of them are > actually in production yet, but we're in the final stages of putting > them there. > > 6.1 doesn't work with the onboard NICS -- you have to get a 6.2-RC > or wait for 6.2. Otherwise, everything 64-bit works as far as we > can tell. We're a little grumpy that we don't have any way to > monitor the RAID (our Dell x850 systems use megarc to automatically > signal us if a drive fails) We've also had occasional problems > with the reboot and shutdown commands not completing, but it's been > so intermittent that we can't seem to isolate the cause. Symptom > is that it gets to the final stage of reboot/shutdown and then waits > indefinitely without issuing the final ACPI command. > > Do some searches on my name and/or those topics on the stable@ > list archives for more details. > > Running the same 1950 platform here with the i386 base-- I've seen the same problems you mention. The onboard NIC worked intermittently, but kept crashing, so was replaced with an Intel NIC. I just placed an order for 7 more, and made sure to get the Intel onboard NIC option. Restarting is buggy as well, with the same symptoms. My (inelegant) solution is to install a pair of ethernet managed power strips, so I can kill power remotely to bring it all the way down if need be. What advantages/disadvantages do you see with running the 64 bit architecture? I must confess, it never occured to me to try that... I'm running the Dual Core Xeon processors, if that helps anything. -- Jay Chandler Network Administrator, Chapman University 714.628.7249 / chandler@chapman.edu Today's Excuse: astropneumatic oscillations in the water-cooling
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