From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Dec 4 15:57:56 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E4A161065672 for ; Thu, 4 Dec 2008 15:57:56 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from cboyd@gizmopartners.com) Received: from mailsafe.midasnetworks.com (mailsafe.midasnetworks.com [216.110.12.7]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B72A68FC1A for ; Thu, 4 Dec 2008 15:57:56 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from cboyd@gizmopartners.com) Received: from [10.10.10.145] (sunfish.midasnetworks.com [208.81.240.41]) (authenticated bits=0) by mailsafe.midasnetworks.com (8.14.2/8.14.1) with ESMTP id mB4Fvu6F040858 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=AES128-SHA bits=128 verify=NO); Thu, 4 Dec 2008 09:57:56 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from cboyd@gizmopartners.com) Message-Id: <3A1117D1-3857-4F45-984A-1CB1CACC133F@gizmopartners.com> From: Chris Boyd To: Tim Judd In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed; delsp=yes Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v929.2) Date: Thu, 4 Dec 2008 09:57:54 -0600 References: <31B0BD29-CAE5-452B-BB24-24ACC39FD2E6@gizmopartners.com> X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.929.2) Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Installation on a Dell Poweredge R805 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: Thu, 04 Dec 2008 15:57:57 -0000 On Dec 4, 2008, at 1:29 AM, Tim Judd wrote: > 1: PERC6 is not listed as supported, last time I checked. > 2: Dells are notorious for not working very well with !Windows, ! > Linux (haven't tried something like Open Solaris) > > I have a new PE2950's at the office, FreeBSD sees everything, > including the PERC6i controller, but the motherboard NICs are > suffering horribly bad for performance. Ping flood from the console > to it's own IP address bound to the NIC looses 30% of it's packets. > Also, what's "NIC2" on the motherboard/case labeling, is the first > NIC FreeBSD finds. NIC1 is the 2nd nic FreeBSD finds. Just oddities. Thanks, Tim. The R805 RAID is actually an LSI controller, supported by the mpt driver. The 7.1 version has some updates that make it work on this box. We're just down the road from Dell, so it's hard to avoid them :-) Agreed on the bce NIC. That NIC seems to be complete junk. It gives me fits no matter what OS drives it. In any case, for the archives, if you have an October 2008 or later production PE R805, you need to use FreeBSD 7.1 for an out of the box installation. --Chris