From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Oct 4 14:00:48 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DE9E616A4D7 for ; Mon, 4 Oct 2004 14:00:48 +0000 (GMT) Received: from www.wcborstel.nl (wcborstel.demon.nl [82.161.134.53]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 564EB43D5C for ; Mon, 4 Oct 2004 14:00:22 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from jorn@wcborstel.nl) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by www.wcborstel.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 311BE44B9; Mon, 4 Oct 2004 16:03:04 +0200 (CEST) Received: from www.wcborstel.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (www.wcborstel.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 85197-03; Mon, 4 Oct 2004 16:03:03 +0200 (CEST) Received: from www.wcborstel.nl (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by www.wcborstel.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id B7CA444A5; Mon, 4 Oct 2004 16:03:03 +0200 (CEST) From: "Jorn Argelo" To: Key Dof , freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Date: Mon, 4 Oct 2004 16:03:03 +0200 Message-Id: <20041004135545.M61493@wcborstel.nl> In-Reply-To: <1096891159.95899.15.camel@ramses> References: <1096891159.95899.15.camel@ramses> X-Mailer: Open WebMail 2.40 20040816 X-OriginatingIP: 82.161.134.53 (jorn) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at mail.wcborstel.nl Subject: Re: PowerEdge 1850 X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 04 Oct 2004 14:00:49 -0000 On Mon, 04 Oct 2004 13:59:19 +0200, Key Dof wrote > Hi, > Did anyone try to use fbsd 4.10 on a dell poweredge 1850? i am > intending to buy one but i need to be sure that i can run fbsd on it > (scsi, raid and network). > Thanks > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" It would be nice if you post the specs the next time ;) Anyway, if I get it right it runs an dual Xeon with EM64T. If you want to use that you will need the AMD64 port of FreeBSD 5.2.1. I'm not sure if EM64T is backwards compatible with the x86 instruction code, so 4.10 will not be an option. The main problem will be the RAID controller. SMP on 5.2.1 is also not really top notch AFAIK. So I would make sure to get a CPU without the EM64T/AMD64 instructions, so you can run 4.10 on that machine, thus you make sure that the RAID controller will function properly. See the hardware notes for more information. Cheers, Jorn