Date: Tue, 01 Dec 1998 10:27:00 -0700 From: Steve Passe <smp@csn.net> To: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> Cc: "Pete McKenna" <pmckenna@uswest.net>, smp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: SMP Xeon update Message-ID: <199812011727.KAA20357@Ilsa.StevesCafe.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 24 Nov 1998 15:30:18 PST." <199811242330.PAA01653@dingo.cdrom.com>
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Hi, > > > > I was looking through the SMP Archive and haven't seen much recently on the > > quad Xeon box you had been testing. > > > > We are looking for a MRTG box to do our network metrics and it looks > > like this would hold us for awhile at the rate things are expanding. Can > > you me update on what's happened and if the onboard controllers are > > usable. We're are planning on running 3.0 release and only need 2 drives > > on either an adaptec or the onboard controller (I'm a bit fuzzy on what > > the onboard controller is) > > The box is running quite stable at the moment (3.0-current). I take it > you're looking for something with a lot of compute legs? > > The system we have here is a pre-release Intel box; I don't know if > it's actually available for purchase anywhere, and for your needs it's > probably very much overspecified (3 PCI busses, 12-bay hotswap disk > array). > > Both Acer and Toshiba were showing systems at Comdex using the same > processor array but with only 1 memory card (4GB max) and a smaller I/O > arrangement. > > The Toshiba system was the Magnia 7000; their pages say it comes with a > 53C896 (ncr) chipset SCSI controller, so it should be just fine. They > were showing it with the AMI MegaRaid, which wouldn't be so good, as we > don't support it yet. > > The Acer system was, I think, an Altos 21000, which looked to be the > same system down to the metalwork. Street price on these should be > around the $10k mark according to Toshiba. check out: http://www.atipa.com/cgi-bin/systembuilder?sc450nx http://www.intel.com/design/servers/sc450nx/prodspec.htm -- Steve Passe | powered by smp@csn.net | Symmetric MultiProcessor FreeBSD To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-smp" in the body of the message
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