From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Sep 20 01:47:04 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3DFBA16A412 for ; Wed, 20 Sep 2006 01:47:04 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from scrappy@freebsd.org) Received: from hub.org (hub.org [200.46.204.220]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A09FD43D7B for ; Wed, 20 Sep 2006 01:46:57 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from scrappy@freebsd.org) Received: from localhost (unknown [200.46.208.251]) by hub.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6EFD93A465D; Tue, 19 Sep 2006 22:46:40 -0300 (ADT) Received: from hub.org ([200.46.204.220]) by localhost (mx1.hub.org [200.46.208.251]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 43866-06; Tue, 19 Sep 2006 22:45:42 -0300 (ADT) Received: from ganymede.hub.org (blk-137-86-60.eastlink.ca [24.137.86.60]) by hub.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F12FC3A465E; Tue, 19 Sep 2006 22:45:24 -0300 (ADT) Received: by ganymede.hub.org (Postfix, from userid 1027) id 24E6136093; Tue, 19 Sep 2006 22:45:47 -0300 (ADT) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ganymede.hub.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2401A343F5; Tue, 19 Sep 2006 22:45:47 -0300 (ADT) Date: Tue, 19 Sep 2006 22:45:47 -0300 (ADT) From: "Marc G. Fournier" X-X-Sender: freebsd@ganymede.hub.org To: ke han In-Reply-To: Message-ID: <20060919224416.L1031@ganymede.hub.org> References: <226ae0c60609180856j1174081cn5510aa94403f139@mail.gmail.com> <20060918131831.6F50.GERARD@seibercom.net> <20060919154025.H1031@ganymede.hub.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: freeBSD certified server hardware ? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 20 Sep 2006 01:47:04 -0000 On Wed, 20 Sep 2006, ke han wrote: > > On Sep 20, 2006, at 2:40 AM, Marc G. Fournier wrote: > >> On Mon, 18 Sep 2006, Gerard Seibert wrote: >> >>> David Robillard wrote: >>> >>> [...] >>> >>>> What I suggest you do is have one of the sales rep set you up with a >>>> test machine. The easiest way to do so is to go at their offices with >>>> a FreeBSD install disk and try to boot/install it on the hardware >>>> you're interested in. That's what I do with HP, Sun and IBM (IMHO, try >>>> to avoid Dell). >>> >>> [...] >>> >>> Dell is, or at least they were, supplying PCs with FBSD installed. >>> Personally, I have had FBSD installed on Dell, IBM and HP, with HP >>> causing the most problems. IBM and Dell have worked for the most part >>> quite nicely. >> >> I'm up to 3 HP servers right now, and nary a problem with any of them ... >> probably the best servers I've picked up yet ... everything 'just worked' >> ... > > What HP model are you using? HP Proliant DL360 G4p's ... RAID controller uses the ciss driver, ethernet uses the bge driver ... single core CPUs right now ... and 4xSAS drive in a RAID1+0 configuration ... I fought my supplier on moving to HP unti he wore me down, and, so far, wish I had switched years ago ... ---- Marc G. Fournier Hub.Org Networking Services (http://www.hub.org) Email . scrappy@hub.org MSN . scrappy@hub.org Yahoo . yscrappy Skype: hub.org ICQ . 7615664