From owner-freebsd-hardware Thu Mar 8 18:13:52 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from anaconda.acceleratedweb.net (anaconda.acceleratedweb.net [209.51.164.130]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 44F4237B719 for ; Thu, 8 Mar 2001 18:13:49 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from simon@optinet.com) Received: (qmail 53464 invoked by uid 106); 9 Mar 2001 02:23:42 -0000 Received: from 66-65-36-21.nyc.rr.com (HELO sharky) (66.65.36.21) by anaconda.acceleratedweb.net with SMTP; 9 Mar 2001 02:23:42 -0000 From: "Simon" To: "Benjamin Flom" , "Mikel King" Cc: "frebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG" , "freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG" Date: Thu, 08 Mar 2001 21:17:49 -0500 Reply-To: "Simon" X-Mailer: PMMail 2000 Professional (2.10.2010) For Windows 2000 (5.0.2195) In-Reply-To: <3AA83B36.1090903@nexgen.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: supermicro motherboards Message-Id: <20010309021349.44F4237B719@hub.freebsd.org> Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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