From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jun 16 17:53:50 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1B92216A4CE for ; Wed, 16 Jun 2004 17:53:50 +0000 (GMT) Received: from apollo.orakel.ntnu.no (apollo.orakel.ntnu.no [129.241.186.245]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 0947843D5F for ; Wed, 16 Jun 2004 17:53:49 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from oyvinht@orakel.ntnu.no) Received: (qmail 25306 invoked by uid 1019); 16 Jun 2004 17:53:30 -0000 Date: Wed, 16 Jun 2004 19:53:30 +0200 From: =?iso-8859-1?Q?=D8yvin?= Halfdan Thuv To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20040616175330.GA23308@orakel.ntnu.no> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.28i Subject: Dell PE750 w/SATA X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: oyvinht@orakel.ntnu.no List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 16 Jun 2004 17:53:50 -0000 Hi, I'm planning to set up a system as described below, but I want to hear if anyone else on this list has had any experience with a similar setup before I put it into production use. It is a Dell PE750 with: - Celeron 2,4 GHz/128 kB - 512 MB ECC DDR (400 MHz) RAM - 2 x 120 GB SATA HD (I plan to mirror) - CERC SATA RAID Controller (6 channel) - C04 STAR1, Add-in CERC SATA RAID cntlr RAID 1 - Adaptec SCSI 39160 controller The SCSI controller is for a PV100T DAT72 external backup tape drive. I plan to run the following services: - firewalling (for this computer and a win-box behind it) - mail (qmail, possisble multidomain) - SQL database (for mail accounts) - samba fileserver (for a windows box that servers webpages (asp-stuff)) - dns (tinydns, just a few domains, zone-transfer to secondary provided by ISP) - backup service to DAT tape (amanda?) - some monitoring (like mrtg and stuff) I need uptime (no backup mail-server here..), so it should be possible to hot- swap the SATA disks (I have only SCSI experience, never tried SATA before). I would like advice wheter to select 4.10 or 5.2.1 (is acpi working well on this one?). Any experience is also greatly appreciated, I'm also open for reccomendations on software/hardware adjustments). -- Øyvin