From owner-freebsd-hardware Wed Aug 9 12:43:27 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from mail.fpsn.net (mail.fpsn.net [63.224.69.57]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 61A6637BAD9 for ; Wed, 9 Aug 2000 12:43:22 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from simon@optinet.com) Received: from sharky (adsl-151-202-97-90.bellatlantic.net [151.202.97.90]) by mail.fpsn.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id VAA68231 for ; Wed, 9 Aug 2000 21:35:05 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from simon@optinet.com) Message-Id: <200008100335.VAA68231@mail.fpsn.net> From: "Simon" To: "hardware@FreeBSD.ORG" Date: Wed, 09 Aug 2000 15:46:34 -0400 Reply-To: "Simon" X-Mailer: PMMail 2000 Professional (2.10.2010) For Windows 2000 (5.0.2195) In-Reply-To: <3991B185.77CF2173@inc.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: Who makes FBSD friendly rackmount systems? Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org We're interested as well - especially in a company that provides some guarantee as far as stability goes under heavy loads. They obviously have to know exactly what they are doing and stress-test all of their servers. Not sure if this is too much too ask, but you never know. -Simon On Wed, 09 Aug 2000 14:31:17 -0500, Steve Kaczkowski wrote: >Hey all, > >I'm coming to a point where building machines from parts is fast >becoming >something no longer desirable and an looking for alternatives. I'm >trying >to find a manufacturer that builds entire system that are FreeBSD >friendly >and thus far just haven't had any luck. > >Here's the specs I'm looking for: > >19" Rackmount >Dual hot swap power (2 power plugs if possible) >PIII 800+ >1GB or more of ram >Disks aren't soo important since external raid will be used >U2/U160 SCSI onboard or able to take full height PCI card > > >Nothing real strange or anything so that's why I find it soo weird. I >know >there are vendors like Compaq,Dell,etc,etc but from reading I've come to >find >that systems like this are a little too proprietary in some aspects and >don't run soo well unless you're running NT (especially Compaq)... > >So I'd appreciate any pointers you guys can give.. > >Thanks in advance! > > > >-- >Steve Kaczkowski Time Warner Telecom IDD >steve@inc.net (414)908-9012 >http://www.inc.net (603)737-9209 Fax > > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message