From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jul 24 14:30:07 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 24FC116A4E2; Mon, 24 Jul 2006 14:30:07 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from eculp@bafirst.com) Received: from bafirst.com (72-12-2-214.wan.networktel.net [72.12.2.214]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C658D43D45; Mon, 24 Jul 2006 14:29:38 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from eculp@bafirst.com) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) (uid 80) by bafirst.com with local; Mon, 24 Jul 2006 09:29:32 -0500 id 00095811.44C4D94C.00008C57 Received: from dsl-201-144-88-38.prod-infinitum.com.mx (dsl-201-144-88-38.prod-infinitum.com.mx [201.144.88.38]) by mail.bafirst.com (Horde MIME library) with HTTP; Mon, 24 Jul 2006 09:29:32 -0500 Message-ID: <20060724092932.eht1fouxokk8ggoo@mail.bafirst.com> Date: Mon, 24 Jul 2006 09:29:32 -0500 From: eculp@bafirst.com To: "Simon L. Nielsen" References: <20060722114052.cwsuco6u80o4okkw@mail.bafirst.com> <44C39E06.80202@gneto.com> <20060723161940.GB1088@zaphod.nitro.dk> In-Reply-To: <20060723161940.GB1088@zaphod.nitro.dk> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format="flowed" Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable User-Agent: Internet Messaging Program (IMP) 4.1-cvs Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: New Dell PowerEdge 2900 X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 24 Jul 2006 14:30:07 -0000 Quoting "Simon L. Nielsen" : > On 2006.07.23 18:04:22 +0200, Martin Nilsson wrote: >> eculp@bafirst.com wrote: >> >Does anyone know of any outstanding issues with the Dell PowerEdge 2900 >> >that comes with the >> > >> >PERC 5/i disk controller >> >Dual Embedded Broadcom=AE NetXtreme II 5708 Gigabit Ethernet NIC's >> >300GB, SAS, 3.5-inch, 10K RPM Hard Drive >> >Memory 4GB 533MHz (4x1GB) >> >> Why don't you buy a system from a vendor who knows FreeBSD and can tell >> you what parts will work and how well supported they are? >> >> There is a long list at: http://www.freebsd.org/commercial/hardware.html >> >> Dell is for people who don't care what's inside the box and they tend to >> run Windows! > > That's not really true, and Dell does care (at least a bit) about > non-Windows customers. E.g. see > http://cvsweb.freebsd.org/src/sys/dev/mfi/mfi.c (the RAID > driver for PERC 5/i: > > =09Sponsored by: Dell, Ironport Simon, Thanks for the answer. It is already in the tree then but it isn't in the handbook yet afaik and since it seems to have been mfc'ed so it should be stable. I can relax a bit. Thanks, ed > > -- > Simon L. Nielsen >