From owner-freebsd-hardware Wed Sep 27 11:57: 8 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from mail.dcnv.com (mail.dcnv.com [216.33.117.136]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A5F6137B422; Wed, 27 Sep 2000 11:57:01 -0700 (PDT) Received: from digitalconvergence.com (dallas [207.158.100.67]) by mail.dcnv.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id NAA02310; Wed, 27 Sep 2000 13:52:54 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from aedmonds@digitalconvergence.com) Message-ID: <39D242FC.FC110A4E@digitalconvergence.com> Date: Wed, 27 Sep 2000 13:57:00 -0500 From: Alan Edmonds X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.75 [en] (WinNT; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Mike Smith Cc: Paolo Tealdi , freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Proliant ML370 architecture References: <200009271843.e8RIh5A05474@mass.osd.bsdi.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Mike Smith wrote: > > > 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. Interesting. I'm running 4.1-RELEASE on DL360s. Works fine. I did have problems with 4GB of RAM and 4.1-STABLE. I'll send in a pr today on that. What are the issues with the DL360? -- Alan Edmonds Director of International Technology Digital:Convergence aedmonds@digitalconvergence.com Phone: +1-214-292-6040 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message