From owner-freebsd-chat Fri Feb 22 6: 5: 8 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from proxy.centtech.com (moat.centtech.com [206.196.95.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D98B337B402 for ; Fri, 22 Feb 2002 06:05:03 -0800 (PST) Received: from sprint.centtech.com (sprint.centtech.com [10.177.173.31]) by proxy.centtech.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g1ME52K29965; Fri, 22 Feb 2002 08:05:03 -0600 (CST) Received: from centtech.com (proton [10.177.173.77]) by sprint.centtech.com (8.9.3+Sun/8.9.3) with ESMTP id IAA02155; Fri, 22 Feb 2002 08:05:02 -0600 (CST) Message-ID: <3C764F9D.1343B3C5@centtech.com> Date: Fri, 22 Feb 2002 08:03:09 -0600 From: Eric Anderson Reply-To: anderson@centtech.com Organization: Centaur Technology X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.78 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.2.12 i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Konstantinos Konstantinidis Cc: chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: IBM x330 & FreeBSD References: <20020222130537.56f5be9f.kkonstan@duth.gr> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Is this for file serving? If it is, I've used Dell's products a lot, and have a 1tb raid system running on FreeBSD now.. FreeBSD + Dell = badass mofo Eric Konstantinos Konstantinidis wrote: > > Hello, > > We're considering buying a bunch of new boxes over here. Among > the list of possible configs are IBM's x330 systems, which look > rather nice. Their sales droids however aren't very helpful when > it comes to answering questions regarding the hardware... Since > we're planning to run FreeBSD on them, I was wondering if anyone > on the list ever used one of those succesfully. > > I'm particularly concerned about the ServeRAID-4Lx host adapter > that doesn't seem to be supported at all... > > TIA, > > --kkonstan > > PS - IBM claims Linux compatibility for those systems, and they > even ported their RAID management software. > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message -- ------------------------------------------------------------------ Eric Anderson Systems Administrator Centaur Technology If at first you don't succeed, sky diving is probably not for you. ------------------------------------------------------------------ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message