From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Aug 22 18:33:27 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from pericles.IPAustralia.gov.au (pericles.IPAustralia.gov.au [202.14.186.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6FA8214D6D for ; Sun, 22 Aug 1999 18:33:22 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from carl@xena.aipo.gov.au) Received: (from smap@localhost) by pericles.IPAustralia.gov.au (8.9.3/8.9.3) id LAA40498 for ; Mon, 23 Aug 1999 11:33:21 +1000 (EST) (envelope-from carl@xena.aipo.gov.au) Received: from newton.aipo.gov.au(10.0.100.18) by pericles.IPAustralia.gov.au via smap (V2.0) id xma040394; Mon, 23 Aug 99 11:33:14 +1000 Received: from localhost (carl@localhost) by newton.aipo.gov.au (8.9.3/8.9.2) with ESMTP id LAA33765 for ; Mon, 23 Aug 1999 11:33:14 +1000 (EST) (envelope-from carl@xena.aipo.gov.au) X-Authentication-Warning: newton.aipo.gov.au: carl owned process doing -bs Date: Mon, 23 Aug 1999 11:33:14 +1000 (EST) From: Carl Makin X-Sender: carl@newton.aipo.gov.au To: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: questions-digest V4 #1083 In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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