From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Apr 1 22:56:35 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.numachi.com (numachi.numachi.com [198.175.254.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id B022814FB8 for ; Thu, 1 Apr 1999 22:56:30 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from reichert@numachi.com) Received: (qmail 2866 invoked by uid 1001); 2 Apr 1999 06:56:10 -0000 Date: Fri, 2 Apr 1999 01:56:10 -0500 From: Brian Reichert To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Dell PowerEdge 6300; support? Message-ID: <19990402015610.L1622@numachi.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95i Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hiya: I poked at Greg Lehey about this, and he punted, and suggested that I pester the good folks in -quesiotns. So here goes: > Howdy- > > I found a post of your to -questions from Fri, 30 Oct 1998 wherein you > cited: > > > I'm currently spending a considerable effort getting a PowerEdge 6300 > > working under FreeBSD. You definitely won't be able to use the RAID > > controller, and it's still not clear whether the onboard SCSI host > > adaptors will work correctly. At the moment, I'd say "hold off". > > Well, guess what: I've got a 6300 I'm trying to make work. Never > mind that the sheer amount of memory this beast has (2G) panics > the boot floppy and CDROM, I was wondering if the last couple of > releases of FreeBSD have magically made it a direct matter to > install it on a 6300. > > Any current news? Is it a complete loss? He mentioned the memory problem had been cleared up in -current (yay!), but I fear for the mutant RADI controller/SCSI thingie in the damn box. So - is there any current news? -- Brian 'you Bastard' Reichert reichert@numachi.com 37 Crystal Ave. #303 Current daytime number: (603)-434-6842 Derry NH 03038-1713 USA Intel architecture: the left-hand path To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message