From owner-freebsd-smp Tue Dec 1 09:08:38 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id JAA18312 for freebsd-smp-outgoing; Tue, 1 Dec 1998 09:08:38 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-smp@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from Ilsa.StevesCafe.com (Ilsa.StevesCafe.com [205.168.119.129]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id JAA18305 for ; Tue, 1 Dec 1998 09:08:35 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from fbsd@Ilsa.StevesCafe.com) Received: from Ilsa.StevesCafe.com (localhost.StevesCafe.com [127.0.0.1]) by Ilsa.StevesCafe.com (8.8.8/8.8.5) with ESMTP id KAA20357; Tue, 1 Dec 1998 10:27:00 -0700 (MST) Message-Id: <199812011727.KAA20357@Ilsa.StevesCafe.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 From: Steve Passe To: Mike Smith cc: "Pete McKenna" , smp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: SMP Xeon update In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 24 Nov 1998 15:30:18 PST." <199811242330.PAA01653@dingo.cdrom.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Tue, 01 Dec 1998 10:27:00 -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-smp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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