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Date:      Mon, 14 Feb 2000 10:18:29 -0600 (CST)
From:      Chris Dillon <cdillon@wolves.k12.mo.us>
To:        David Greenman <dg@root.com>
Cc:        "Kenneth D. Merry" <ken@kdm.org>, Steve Passe <smp@csn.net>, freebsd-smp@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: current hardware choices. 
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.20.0002141013200.36939-100000@mail.wolves.k12.mo.us>
In-Reply-To: <200002140708.XAA11927@implode.root.com>

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On Sun, 13 Feb 2000, David Greenman wrote:

> >>    The OCPRF100 is sold by TeraSolutions as a model TS-5000. I don't know what
> >> kind of a deal we can for you or if the pricing will be better than the big
> >> vendors, but we'd be happy to provide a price quote for whatever configuration
> >> you specify.
> >
> >Will FreeBSD actually run on a Profusion board?  Has anyone tried it?
> 
>    The OCPRF100 just started shipping from Intel recently and I haven't seen
> or tested one myself. All we've done at TeraSolutions so far is assign a TSI
> model number to it. Of course we've shipped many SC450NX and AC450NX systems
> and they mostly work with FreeBSD except for the onboard SCSI (we ship those
> systems with PCI Adaptec SCSI controllers to work around this).

Hmm... According to Intel's specs, the SC450NX uses the Symbios Logic
53C896 for two wide-ultra2 SCSI channels, and a 53C810AE for a single
narrow channel.  Have you tried the newer sym driver to see if it
works with those?  I'm curious, since I'm thinking of using that board
for some servers as well.  I'm not sure why the ncr driver wouldn't
work with those either, though.

>    On the other hand, I'm sure I would have heard something if FreeBSD didn't
> work with the OCPRF100 since I talk to people at Intel in the high-end server
> division and they do test FreeBSD on their servers.

Thats always good to know. :-)


-- Chris Dillon - cdillon@wolves.k12.mo.us - cdillon@inter-linc.net
   FreeBSD: The fastest and most stable server OS on the planet.
   For Intel x86 and Alpha architectures. ( http://www.freebsd.org )




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