From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Nov 10 10:51:08 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E9AAF16A41F for ; Thu, 10 Nov 2005 10:51:08 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from tedm@toybox.placo.com) Received: from mail.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com (mail.web-strider.com [65.75.192.90]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 60B8F43D46 for ; Thu, 10 Nov 2005 10:51:08 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from tedm@toybox.placo.com) Received: from tedwin2k (nat-rtr.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com [65.75.197.130]) by mail.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com (8.11.1/8.11.1) with SMTP id jAAAs1b94967; Thu, 10 Nov 2005 02:54:01 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from tedm@toybox.placo.com) From: "Ted Mittelstaedt" To: "John Fox" , Date: Thu, 10 Nov 2005 02:51:05 -0800 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="windows-1250" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.6604 (9.0.2911.0) X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1506 In-Reply-To: <20051110012313.GB22149@mind.net> Importance: Normal Cc: Subject: RE: Status of 6.0 for production systems 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, 10 Nov 2005 10:51:09 -0000 There are some things broken in 5.4 that are still broken in 6.0 with regards to support of older hardware. In particular the ida driver is a mess - EISA support in that was busted years ago, then 5.X busted support for more 'modern' systems like the Compaq 1600R HP "DL" series of systems are kind of a moving target anyway, unfortunately. For those sytems I still use 4.11 (in fact I just setup 2 new 4.11 production systems two days ago) However, 6.0 is a requirement for currently shipping hardware, in particular the Intel series of boxed "server" motherboards, if you want to use raid and sata drives, since Intel seems to like to change it's motherboard chipsets as fast as most people change their underpants. I'm actually building a 6.0 production server today. (5.4 and earlier will not recognize the disk array) It would be nice if we could get more support for SATA raid in the atacontrol program. Ted >-----Original Message----- >From: owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org >[mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org]On Behalf Of John Fox >Sent: Wednesday, November 09, 2005 5:23 PM >To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org >Subject: Status of 6.0 for production systems > > >I remember back a while when 5.x had been recently released >as STABLE and the conventional wisdom said not to use it in >production until the 5.3 release. > >Is there any such conventional wisdom as regards 6.x? > >Thanks, > >John >-- >jjf@mind.net >John Fox, Senior Systems Administrator >InfoStructure - http://www.mind.net >Vox: (541)773-5000 / Fax: (541)488-7599 >_______________________________________________ >freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list >http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions >To unsubscribe, send any mail to >"freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > >-- >No virus found in this incoming message. >Checked by AVG Free Edition. >Version: 7.1.362 / Virus Database: 267.12.8/163 - Release Date: >11/8/2005 >