From owner-freebsd-hardware Wed Sep 27 11:42:14 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from mass.osd.bsdi.com (adsl-63-206-90-224.dsl.snfc21.pacbell.net [63.206.90.224]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A2C8A37B424 for ; Wed, 27 Sep 2000 11:41:52 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mass.osd.bsdi.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mass.osd.bsdi.com (8.11.0/8.9.3) with ESMTP id e8RIh5A05474; Wed, 27 Sep 2000 11:43:06 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from msmith@mass.osd.bsdi.com) Message-Id: <200009271843.e8RIh5A05474@mass.osd.bsdi.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.1.1 10/15/1999 To: Paolo Tealdi Cc: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Proliant ML370 architecture In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 27 Sep 2000 17:03:42 +0200." <5.0.0.25.0.20000927165317.00a8a400@averroe.polito.it> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Wed, 27 Sep 2000 11:43:05 -0700 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > In a few days we will buy a Compaq Proliant ML370. > I searched for information on the architecture and on FreeBSD support for > its hardware but i couldn't find anything of certain. I haven't heard of anyone running one of these systems yet. > Our vendor told us that its NIC chipset is an Intel 82559 (compaq calls it > NC3163) and its controller chipset SCSI is a "Symbios Logic 53C1510". > > This is right ? > FreeBSD 4.1 (4.1.1 ) supports these cards ? Yes, they should work. > In general anybody has tested FreeBSD in a Compaq Proliant ML370 > environment (with two processors) ? No. Note that the DL360 is known to have problems, while the DL380 is known to work fine. You may have issues with the DL370, in which case you should yell at Compaq. -- ... every activity meets with opposition, everyone who acts has his rivals and unfortunately opponents also. But not because people want to be opponents, rather because the tasks and relationships force people to take different points of view. [Dr. Fritz Todt] V I C T O R Y N O T V E N G E A N C E To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message