Date: Tue, 28 Nov 2000 22:57:37 From: "Aaron Hill" <hillaa@hotmail.com> To: noor@comrax.com, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Compaq ProLiant servers. Message-ID: <F146QvcZGZvgTjQ6qLG000030b8@hotmail.com>
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>Anyone uses one of Compaq's ProLiant servers w/ FreeBSD installed on >them as OS? We're currently searching for a suitable server for our >company, and Compaq's server seem very attractive. I still don't know, >however, if all of the hardware is supported by FreeBSD. Yes, we run FreeBSD on a number of ProLiants. Currently we have it installed on a 3000 (w/ dual CPU) and a 1850R. All servers have Compaq Smart RAID controllers. The onboard/older Compaq 10/100 Intelligent cards use a Texas Instruments ThunderLAN chipset so are supported by the tl driver (with miibus). The newer Compaq 10/100 cards use the Intel 10/100B PRO (82558B) chipset so are supported by the fxp driver. Compaq RAID is supported by the ida driver but I understand if you use the newer RAID card (I forget the name of it) you need to use 4.1.1-RELEASE or later. Onboard SCSI cards use Symbios/NCR chipsets (like NCR53C810) and so are covered by the sym driver. All in all we haven't had an issue with FreeBSD on the Compaq machines. Feel free to drop me an email directly if you'd like copies of dmesg or kernel configs etc. Happy to help. Aaron _____________________________________________________________________________________ Get more from the Web. FREE MSN Explorer download : http://explorer.msn.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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