From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Aug 20 16:24:52 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mta1.tm.net.my (mta1.tm.net.my [202.188.95.4]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2525415A7A for ; Fri, 20 Aug 1999 16:24:45 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from rezath@tm.net.my) Received: from tm.net.my ([202.188.127.2]) by mta1.tm.net.my (InterMail v03.02.05 118 121 101) with ESMTP id <19990820232435.BUED1712@tm.net.my>; Sat, 21 Aug 1999 07:24:35 +0800 Message-ID: <37BDE6B6.EE696325@tm.net.my> Date: Sat, 21 Aug 1999 07:37:26 +0800 From: Rezamys X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.6 [en] (Win95; I) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: John Lengeling , doug@gorean.org, dan@jgl.reno.nv.us Cc: Forrest Aldrich , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: DELL servers and FreeBSD References: <4.2.0.58.19990817140100.00ada6f0@216.67.12.69> <37B9C33A.7C21E8FC@raccoon.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Oh..oh... We just bought it and it came 2 days ago... Is this true about poweredge 1300s? Can anybody really rectify this? John Lengeling wrote: > I wish the other respondants were more accurate with their answers... > FreeBSD will run the Dell PowerEdges, but... > > Here is my experience with PowerEdge 1300s. > > 1. Need at least FreeBSD 3.X to get support for the Adaptec onboard SCSI > controller. AIC 7890. 6350s have the same onboard controller. > > 2. FreeBSD does not support the RAID controller that Dell sells. The > PERC2 RAID controller. > > 3. I couldn't get the Sony CDROM drive to work under FreeBSD 3.1. I > haven't tried it under 3.2. Most people just installed some other CDROM > drive to get around the problem. > > Forrest Aldrich wrote: > > > > Just as a pre-emptive question: has anyone run into problems running > > FreeBSD on any DELL servers? Namely, the PowerEdge 6350's. > > > > Thanks. > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message