From owner-freebsd-isp Mon Jan 10 18:32:50 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from richard2.pil.net (richard2.pil.net [207.8.164.9]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id EFA3E1532E for ; Mon, 10 Jan 2000 18:32:44 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from up@3.am) Received: (qmail 85847 invoked by uid 1825); 11 Jan 2000 02:32:38 -0000 Received: from localhost (sendmail-bs@127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 11 Jan 2000 02:32:38 -0000 Date: Mon, 10 Jan 2000 21:32:38 -0500 (EST) From: X-Sender: up@richard2.pil.net To: Rowan Crowe Cc: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Subject: Re: TX pro II motherboard In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Tue, 11 Jan 2000, Rowan Crowe wrote: > On Mon, 10 Jan 2000, Pete Mckenna wrote: > > > We have 50 or so L440GX MB runnig FreeBSD and are pretty happy with > > them. > > They have a Intel PRO/100+ (Intel 82559) and Adaptec 7896 Dual Channel > > SCSI onboard. > > These boards also can export preboot info via a serial port which is > > nice for long distance bios access. We have many of these server in > > remote dark sites. A new rev is supposed to support up to 700MHZ PIII. > > Oh, and these are SMP boards. > > Sounds great, except for the price... a quick look at a price list shows > that it's nearly 8 times that of the TX pro II! It won't be a high end > server so that board would definitely be overkill. Does the TX pro II include onboard LVD SCSI, Fast Ether and SMP? BTW, I've seen the L440GX+'s at pricewatch.com for under $600 US... > The serial port boot sounds good too - that's the only reason I need video > on board, to configure the BIOS and debug any early boot problems... What I do is keep a serial cable plugged in it, going to a PM2e30, so I can telnet to the PM and attach to the serial port and do just about anything you can do from a "real" console, including boot a different kernel, get into the BIOS (looks kinda funny, though), etc. James Smallacombe PlantageNet, Inc. CEO and Janitor up@3.am http://3.am ========================================================================= To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message