From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Sep 17 11:19:46 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id LAA24971 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Thu, 17 Sep 1998 11:19:46 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from shell6.ba.best.com (shell6.ba.best.com [206.184.139.137]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id LAA24963 for ; Thu, 17 Sep 1998 11:19:43 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jkb@best.com) Received: from localhost (jkb@localhost) by shell6.ba.best.com (8.9.0/8.9.0/best.sh) with SMTP id LAA08876; Thu, 17 Sep 1998 11:19:00 -0700 (PDT) X-Authentication-Warning: shell6.ba.best.com: jkb owned process doing -bs Date: Thu, 17 Sep 1998 11:18:59 -0700 (PDT) From: "Jan B. Koum " X-Sender: jkb@shell6.ba.best.com To: Gerardo Gallardo cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: DELL Poweredge server In-Reply-To: <36011641.5C219E1F@sawtek.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I have two Dell PowerEdges 2300 running just fine. They are very, VERY fast also. I am attaching dmesg output below. FreeBSD will handle 4 CPUs just fine also. What chipset is Raid5 controller using? -- Yan I don't have the password .... + Jan Koum But the path is chainlinked .. | Spelled Jan, pronounced Yan. There. So if you've got the time .... | Web: http://www.best.com/~jkb Set the tone to sync ......... + OS: http://www.FreeBSD.org On Thu, 17 Sep 1998, Gerardo Gallardo wrote: >Hi, I would like to know if someone can help me on this. I got a client >who is planning to buy a database server. He's thinking about UNIX and a >DELL PowerEdge BOX. Question would be : Does FreeBSD run on this kind of >hardware? I should say that this server uses up to 4 processors ( INTEL >Pentium II ) and RAID 5 > >I will appreciate all your inputs, thanks, > > > Copyright (c) 1992-1998 FreeBSD Inc. Copyright (c) 1982, 1986, 1989, 1991, 1993 The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. FreeBSD 3.0CAM-19980712-SNAP #2: Tue Sep 1 17:53:53 GMT 1998 root@informer.jkb.org:/usr/src/sys/compile/INFORMER Timecounter "i8254" frequency 1193182 Hz cost 3083 ns Timecounter "TSC" frequency 397330803 Hz cost 124 ns CPU: Pentium II (quarter-micron) (397.33-MHz 686-class CPU) Origin = "GenuineIntel" Id = 0x651 Stepping=1 Features=0x183fbff> real memory = 134217728 (131072K bytes) avail memory = 127918080 (124920K bytes) Probing for devices on PCI bus 0: chip0: rev 0x02 on pci0.0.0 chip1: rev 0x02 on pci0.1.0 chip2: rev 0x03 on pci0.2.0 chip3: rev 0x02 on pci0.7.0 chip4: rev 0x01 int d irq 0 on pci0.7.2 chip5: rev 0x02 on pci0.7.3 fxp0: rev 0x02 int a irq 14 on pci0.8.0 fxp0: Ethernet address 00:a0:c9:cf:e0:35 Probing for devices on PCI bus 1: vga0: rev 0x5c on pci1.0.0 Probing for devices on PCI bus 2: ahc0: rev 0x00 int a irq 11 on pci2.4.0 ahc0: aic7890/91 Wide Channel A, SCSI Id=7, 32/255 SCBs ahc1: rev 0x03 int a irq 11 on pci2.6.0 ahc1: aic7860 Single Channel A, SCSI Id=7, 3/255 SCBs Probing for devices on the ISA bus: sc0 at 0x60-0x6f irq 1 on motherboard sc0: VGA color <16 virtual consoles, flags=0x0> fdc0 at 0x3f0-0x3f7 irq 6 drq 2 on isa fdc0: FIFO enabled, 8 bytes threshold fd0: 1.44MB 3.5in npx0 on motherboard npx0: INT 16 interface ahc0:A:6: refuses synchronous negotiation. Using asynchronous transfers pass3 at ahc0 bus 0 target 6 lun 0 pass3: Fixed Processor SCSI2 device pass3: 3.300MB/s transfers da0 at ahc0 bus 0 target 0 lun 0 da0: Fixed Direct Access SCSI2 device da0: 80.0MB/s transfers (40.0MHz, offset 15, 16bit), Tagged Queueing Enabled da0: 4340MB (8888924 512 byte sectors: 255H 63S/T 553C) da2 at ahc0 bus 0 target 2 lun 0 da2: Fixed Direct Access SCSI2 device da2: 80.0MB/s transfers (40.0MHz, offset 15, 16bit), Tagged Queueing Enabled da2: 4340MB (8888924 512 byte sectors: 255H 63S/T 553C) da1 at ahc0 bus 0 target 1 lun 0 da1: Fixed Direct Access SCSI2 device da1: 80.0MB/s transfers (40.0MHz, offset 15, 16bit), Tagged Queueing Enabled da1: 4340MB (8888924 512 byte sectors: 255H 63S/T 553C) changing root device to da0s1a cd0 at ahc1 bus 0 target 5 lun 0 cd0: Removable CD-ROM SCSI2 device cd0: 20.0MB/s transfers (20.0MHz, offset 15) cd0: Attempt to query device size failed: NOT READY, Medium not present (da0:ahc0:0:0:0): tagged openings now 63 (da1:ahc0:0:1:0): tagged openings now 63 fxp0: promiscuous mode enabled fxp0: promiscuous mode enabled To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message