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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
>> 
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