Date: Mon, 23 Aug 1999 11:33:14 +1000 (EST) From: Carl Makin <carl@xena.aipo.gov.au> To: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: questions-digest V4 #1083 Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9908231108130.33701-100000@newton.aipo.gov.au> In-Reply-To: <bulk.46702.19990820170305@hub.freebsd.org>
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This is being typed on a Dell PowerEdge 2300, dual PIII 450s running 3.2-STABLE and we have 3 other 4300s running FreeBSD as well. > John Lengeling wrote: > > > I wish the other respondants were more accurate with their answers... > > FreeBSD will run the Dell PowerEdges, but... > > Here is my experience with PowerEdge 1300s. > > 1. Need at least FreeBSD 3.X to get support for the Adaptec onboard SCSI > > controller. AIC 7890. 6350s have the same onboard controller. The AIC7890 is supported by the AHC driver. > > 2. FreeBSD does not support the RAID controller that Dell sells. The > > PERC2 RAID controller. True. Dell told us that they were willing to write a driver for it but haven't got back to us yet. I have one of those controllers in this box sitting idle waiting for that driver. > > 3. I couldn't get the Sony CDROM drive to work under FreeBSD 3.1. I > > haven't tried it under 3.2. Most people just installed some other CDROM > > drive to get around the problem. Our boxes came with NEC CDROMS. The onboard ATI Rage adaptor has a crappy 2Mb ram so I fitted a PCI Matrox G200 as well. Carl. (Please cc me directly on any replies as I don't always get time to scan the questions digest.) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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