From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jun 4 00:28:39 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id AAA17226 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Thu, 4 Jun 1998 00:28:39 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from solaris.matti.ee (root@solaris.matti.ee [194.126.98.135]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id AAA17218 for ; Thu, 4 Jun 1998 00:28:32 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from vallo@matti.ee) Received: from matti.ee (ap16 [194.126.98.176]) by solaris.matti.ee (8.8.8/8.8.8.s) with ESMTP id KAA10263; Thu, 4 Jun 1998 10:27:59 +0300 (EET DST) Message-ID: <3576441E.A215C30D@matti.ee> Date: Thu, 04 Jun 1998 09:52:14 +0300 From: Vallo Kallaste Organization: AS Matti X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.04 [en] (Win95; I) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Roger P. Johnson" CC: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Is anyone using HP E45 Netserver or HP Brio? Need reliable uptime server ... References: <199806031547.KAA11171@fep.hirshfields.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Roger P. Johnson wrote: > The Netserver E45 with Ultra SCSI, CD-ROM, 10/100 NIC, 233 MHZ > for approx. $1500 looks good fro Computer Discount Warehouse ... > > Is there anyone that can give me any feed back on their experience > with HP servers using FreeBSD ? > > What brand of BIOS does HP use ? Phoenix (please say no), AMI, > other ? *** I have tried exactly this model few days ago. 2.2.5-RELEASE installs smoothly, so I mean newer versions also. This box haves Intel Etherexpress 10/100B card (a good one), but only narrow SCSI interface (AIC-7860 chip) and an 4,3GB HP disk. Unfortunately HP modified Phoenix BIOS is the brand ;-). For servers I suggest wide SCSI but this depends what you serve, certainly. Very ordinary pc based server as I can say. Sincerely Vallo Kallaste vallo@matti.ee To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message