From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jan 28 08:38:05 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D1D1616A4CE; Wed, 28 Jan 2004 08:38:05 -0800 (PST) Received: from freebsd.org.ru (www.freebsd.org.ru [194.84.67.5]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AC34E43D58; Wed, 28 Jan 2004 08:38:04 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from osa@freebsd.org.ru) Received: by freebsd.org.ru (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 2C55B398; Wed, 28 Jan 2004 19:38:03 +0300 (MSK) Date: Wed, 28 Jan 2004 19:38:03 +0300 From: "Sergey A. Osokin" To: Marko Zec Message-ID: <20040128163803.GR35515@freebsd.org.ru> References: <200401281727.58543.zec@tel.fer.hr> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200401281727.58543.zec@tel.fer.hr> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.5.1i cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org cc: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 4.9-R on IBM xSeries 305 or Dell PowerEdge 650? X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 28 Jan 2004 16:38:06 -0000 On Wed, Jan 28, 2004 at 05:27:58PM +0100, Marko Zec wrote: > > I'm shopping for a cheap uniprocessor rackmount server which will be > running exclusively 4.9-RELEASE. It must have a fast processor / memory > bus, and possibly an integrated dual gigabit copper NIC attached to > PCI-X bus (plain PCI is not an option). SCSI / RAID stuff is not > necessary - IDE will do fine. > > It seems that both IBM xSeries 305 and Dell PowerEdge 650 might fit... > Does anyone have experiences with running FreeBSD on those machines? > Any other alternatives worth considering? I use IBM xSeries 330, powered by 5.1-R and works very well. -- Regards, /"\ ascii ribbon campaign Sergey "ozz" Osokin, \ / against html mail http://ozz.pp.ru/ X and news / \