Date: Sun, 22 May 2005 12:26:56 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White <dwhite@gumbysoft.com> To: Danny Braniss <danny@cs.huji.ac.il> Cc: Carl Makin <carl@xena.IPAustralia.gov.au>, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org, mjacob@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Dell PowerEdge 1855 Message-ID: <20050522122617.O27009@carver.gumbysoft.com> In-Reply-To: <E1DZs16-0003kH-I3@cs1.cs.huji.ac.il> References: <E1DZs16-0003kH-I3@cs1.cs.huji.ac.il>
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On Sun, 22 May 2005, Danny Braniss wrote: > > > Hi Doug, > > > > > > Sorry for taking so long to reply on this, been on 3 weeks leave... > > > > > > On Fri, 8 Apr 2005, Doug White wrote: > > > > > > > On Wed, 6 Apr 2005, Carl Makin wrote: > > > > > > > > The boot sequence will hang if the USB drive is attached at boot. There > > > > > > > It seems to be acting like Uthe USB controller isn't getting interrupts. > > > > Does the problem recur on the installed system? > > > > > > Yes it did however that chassis and the servers were a test loaner and > > > have been returned. We have decided to go with the 1855 though (our > > > windows guy was *very* enthusiastic about them) and when they arrive I'll > > > run the tests you suggested. > > > > > > Thanks! > > > > so now i'm testing one too :-), any nice things to say about this blade? > > while trying out the scsi the blade panics :-) > > and as to cpu/memory power, it seems to be slower than the pe-1750 > > > > danny > > nothing like talking to oneself :-) > > i disabled the mirrowing, and now the disk io is nice, and more importanly, the > system does not panic, i guess the mpt/(aka da0: <DELL VIRTUAL DISK IM 1998>) needs some work still :-) The mpt driver has some issues. I have an IBM machine that freaks out similiarly if the integrated mirroring is enabled. However IM works properly on other machines, so YMMV :) -- Doug White | FreeBSD: The Power to Serve dwhite@gumbysoft.com | www.FreeBSD.org
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