Date: Thu, 08 Mar 2001 21:17:49 -0500 From: "Simon" <simon@optinet.com> To: "Benjamin Flom" <benf@nexgen.com>, "Mikel King" <mikel@ra.upan.org> Cc: "frebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG" <frebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>, "freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG" <freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: supermicro motherboards Message-ID: <20010309021349.44F4237B719@hub.freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <3AA83B36.1090903@nexgen.com>
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cough...cough.. where did you get 2 GHz processors? -Simon On Thu, 08 Mar 2001 21:08:54 -0500, Benjamin Flom wrote: >We build and deploy the box that you specd out. 370DLE, 2 GHz >processors, 2 GB RAM (4 x 512, make sure you use registered ECC or it >won't work). I don't understand your I/O requirement from your email, >but we used the DLE because we separate out I/O to a PCI card depending >on the customer's needs. So far we have used 64 bit PCI RAID cards, the >Adaptec 3200S (DPT VI in the Kernel, option asr). We haven't used the >IDE controllers on these boards (or for that matter any Supermicro >board) so I cannot comment on any issues related to these, but the >floppy controller works fine. Kernel compiled cleanly, no complaints or >problems (except that the Intel fans didn't fit the form factor of the >board and we had to use the Supermicro supplied fans instead). One quirk >with the Supermicro Server Work chipset boards is that they don't have >an AGP slot. While this is not a performance issue it is a pain in the >but to hunt down decent PCI video cards. > >Mikel King wrote: > >> Hi all. I've been tasked with building a new server and I am looking at >> two motherboard from supermicro both have 64bit pci slots and support >> atleast two 1ghz cpus. >> >> 370der with ati rage xl onboard, and scsi onboard & dual EIDE >> 370dec just dual EIDE >> >> Anyone ever use a supermicro board? Are there any known issues w/ >> freebsd? >> >> Cheers, >> Mikel >> >> To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >> with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message >> >> >> > > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message
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