From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Apr 23 21:25:51 2003 Return-Path: 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 C9BBE37B404 for ; Wed, 23 Apr 2003 21:25:51 -0700 (PDT) Received: from hpcaz.com (hpcaz.com [65.39.221.152]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 4EAFB43FBD for ; Wed, 23 Apr 2003 21:25:51 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from hpcaz@hpcaz.com) Received: (qmail 90576 invoked by uid 89); 24 Apr 2003 04:28:25 -0000 Message-ID: <20030424042825.90575.qmail@hpcaz.com> From: webmaster@hpcaz.com To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Date: Wed, 23 Apr 2003 21:28:25 -0700 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Hardware Compatibility X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 24 Apr 2003 04:25:52 -0000 QUESTIONS: 1) Does FreeBSD support IDE RAID controllers? 2) Does it support AMD Athlons (natively)? 2) Where can I find information for configuring FreeBSD for use in these situations? SITUATION: I've been a RedHat user for years and currently support a large number of RedHat servers--HTTP, SMTP, FTP, and VPN servers, to name a few. I was recently turned on to FreeBSD. I downloaded the ISOs and installed. So far, I like it! All the software I need to run on it will work. However, the biggest problem I'm having is hardware compatibility. The servers I produce are (mostly) turn-key--that is, they're not Dells or Gateways. Most of my customers are looking for high performance at the lowest possible cost. Thus, I offer a lot of IDE RAID and Athlon-based servers to them. I've received a suprisingly good response with this and other "budget" hardware configurations. All of the manufacturers I use provide Linux drivers for their hardware or the support is provided in the Linux kernel. None of the vendors I use provide FreeBSD software (with the exception of Adaptec for version 4.11). So, I'm guessing that the support for hardware on the compatibility list is provide by the FreeBSD project but I can't seem to locate the documentation for setting up these configurations. Any help would be greately appreciated. -- Tom Smith High Performance Computing webmaster@hpcaz.com http://www.hpcaz.com/