From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Sep 26 17:30:06 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A566316A419 for ; Wed, 26 Sep 2007 17:30:06 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jerrymc@gizmo.acns.msu.edu) Received: from gizmo.acns.msu.edu (gizmo.acns.msu.edu [35.8.1.43]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1D20B13C43E for ; Wed, 26 Sep 2007 17:30:05 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jerrymc@gizmo.acns.msu.edu) Received: from gizmo.acns.msu.edu (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by gizmo.acns.msu.edu (8.13.6/8.13.6) with ESMTP id l8QHT0Fb043757; Wed, 26 Sep 2007 13:29:00 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from jerrymc@gizmo.acns.msu.edu) Received: (from jerrymc@localhost) by gizmo.acns.msu.edu (8.13.6/8.13.6/Submit) id l8QHT0h1043756; Wed, 26 Sep 2007 13:29:00 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from jerrymc) Date: Wed, 26 Sep 2007 13:29:00 -0400 From: Jerry McAllister To: Tim Kellers Message-ID: <20070926172900.GA43716@gizmo.acns.msu.edu> References: <46FA8669.2030508@wallnet.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <46FA8669.2030508@wallnet.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.2i Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Dell Servers and FreeBSD X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 26 Sep 2007 17:30:06 -0000 On Wed, Sep 26, 2007 at 12:18:49PM -0400, Tim Kellers wrote: > Does anyone have any recommendations or experience with any of the newer > Dell servers (2900, 2950 for example) and FreeBSD 6.2 in a production > environment? > > My old Dell 2400 hardware is quickly expiring and I need to replace it > with something that will support FreeBSD 6.2 and have enough horsepower > to host a substantial (50 or so) number of concurrent Moodle logins. > The database (pgsql) is already on another server so I won't be chewing > up server resources by hosting a database, too. I have put FreeBSD (6.2 I think) on 2950-s. It worked fine. The only problem was some confusion about the raid driver identifier. I needed to do some rummaging through dmesg and it was not at first obvious as it was a little unnoticed line amidst lots of others that looked more likely. But, I found it and had no problems after that. Unfortunately I had to give those machines up to another project and can't look and see what it was now. ////jerry > > Tim > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"