Date: Fri, 12 Sep 2003 14:43:21 +0300 From: Danny Braniss <danny@cs.huji.ac.il> To: Yaoping Ruan <yruan@CS.Princeton.EDU> Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD on Intel Server Board SE7501WV2 Message-ID: <E19xmKf-000Meg-00@cs.huji.ac.il> In-Reply-To: Your message of Thu, 11 Sep 2003 13:36:35 -0400 (EDT) .
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we have some 50 of these, all in intel boxes, SR-something. 80% are runing Mosix/Linux, the rest Freebsd 4.8 and 5.1 so far had few hardware problems, but they were all solved. the bios is not realy for the weak-hearted but i've seen worse. btw, i just installed 2 120GB disks and im getting around 60MGB/s for writing. the onboard nics are RJ45, but maybe there is an option for fiber. danny PS: the console redirect is different between BIOS vers. > Hello, > > We plan to install FreeBSD on an Intel Server Board SE7501WV2 with 1 XEON > 2.4GHz CPU, 4GB PC2100 DDR memory, and a Seagate 120GB ATA 7200RPM > harddisk, and use the server box for high demand SpecWeb99 tests. Does > anyone have any experience on this Server Board, and see any compatibility > problem here? The reason I am asking is that we had some kernel > compatibility issues on other Intel Board. > > An other question about this box is the two on-board Gigabit Network > Controller. Do they work fine on FreeBSD? May I use fiber Giganet NCI like > Netgear GA621 on it? > > Any thoughts/information are welcome. > > Thanks a lot > > - Yaoping Ruan > ********************* > Computer Science Dept. > Princeton University > ********************* > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-hackers-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >
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