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From: Norman Maurer <norman@apache.org>
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Am Mittwoch, den 09.01.2008, 11:24 -0500 schrieb Brian A. Seklecki:
> On Thu, 27 Dec 2007, Olivier Nicole wrote:
> 
> > Hello,
> >
> > This is just to confirm that Dell Power Edge 2950, with Quad Core Xeon
> > E5420 is OK with FreeBSD 6.2/6.3.
> 
> Make sure that you get a Revision 2 (R2).  We had some serious stability 
> issues with two R1s.  Yay for beta testing $6k servers.
> 
> You'll want to read the entire thread about mfi(4) and bce(4) instability 
> on RELENG_6.  Someone just reported a geometry size reporting error with 
> the new PERC/6 that Dell is pushing, so stick with PERC/5.
> 
> My personal recommendation is to use em(4) and disable onboard Broadcom 
> and forget that Dell ever started shipping Broadcom.
> 
> ~BAS

We using 6.2-p9 on two Dell Power Edge 2950 without problems yet.

bye
Norman