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On May 5, 2004, at 7:07 AM, Kris Kennaway wrote:

> On Wed, May 05, 2004 at 06:31:49PM +0800, JAMES WANG wrote:
>> Dear All
>>
>> I am James wang at IBMTaiwan and responsible for IBM xSeries.
>>
>> My question is :  Can FreeBSD support IBM high end PC server ( x445, 
>> Xeon
>> CPU ) ?
>

We run a farm of x335s at my company. FreeBSD-5.2.x works great.
ACPI works, broadcom works, PXEBOOT works. XEON, HT works. I have been 
netbooting them.
If you're using the built in RAID option, I'm not sure about that.


> Probably, why don't you try it and find out? :)
>
> Kris