From owner-freebsd-hardware Tue Sep 28 5:46:49 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from pericles.IPAustralia.gov.au (pericles.IPAustralia.gov.au [202.14.186.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A062C15531 for ; Tue, 28 Sep 1999 05:46:43 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Michael.Still@ipaustralia.gov.au) Received: (from smap@localhost) by pericles.IPAustralia.gov.au (8.9.3/8.9.3) id WAA57322; Tue, 28 Sep 1999 22:46:42 +1000 (EST) (envelope-from Michael.Still@ipaustralia.gov.au) X-Authentication-Warning: pericles.IPAustralia.gov.au: smap set sender to using -f Received: from noteshub01.aipo.gov.au(10.0.100.21) by pericles.IPAustralia.gov.au via smap (V2.0) id xma057316; Tue, 28 Sep 99 22:46:29 +1000 Received: by noteshub01.aipo.gov.au(Lotus SMTP MTA v4.6.3 (778.2 1-4-1999)) id 4A2567FA.0046439A ; Tue, 28 Sep 1999 22:47:28 +1000 X-Lotus-FromDomain: IP_AUSTRALIA From: Michael.Still@ipaustralia.gov.au To: "Jose M. Alcaide" Cc: Doug.Jackson@ipaustralia.gov.au, carl@xena.aipo.gov.au, freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Message-ID: <4A2567FA.004642D8.00@noteshub01.aipo.gov.au> Date: Tue, 28 Sep 1999 22:47:25 +1000 Subject: Re: Dell PowerEdge 6300 with 4 Xeon processors ? Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-type: multipart/mixed; Boundary="0__=ksfvrVZWxQYiA1Nk9Br4AmErXI8Uc0ymDu3ZnyAoawu7TbadB3x7tgAX" Content-Disposition: inline Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org --0__=ksfvrVZWxQYiA1Nk9Br4AmErXI8Uc0ymDu3ZnyAoawu7TbadB3x7tgAX Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline To: "Jose M. Alcaide" cc: Doug Jackson, carl@xena.aipo.gov.au, freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Dual processor, able to go to quad though. Michael "Jose M. Alcaide" on 28/09/99 10:40:38 pm To: Michael Still cc: Doug Jackson, carl@xena.aipo.gov.au, freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Dell PowerEdge 6300 with 4 Xeon processors ? Michael.Still@ipaustralia.gov.au wrote: > > We run Dell PowerEdge 2300, 4300 and 6300 machines with FreeBSD 3.2 just fine. > You should be aware that the install dies if you have too much RAM, we had to go > down from 2GB to 128 MB when we ran the install CD. You are right to put the > extra memory back in after that. One little question: are you running FreeBSD on quad processor 6300s ? > Also, be aware that the Power Edge Raid Controllers (PERCs), are not supported > by FreeBSD at the time. I have a feeling there is a driver in current, but we > have a policy of only running from release. We use vinum and it flies. I plan to use Vinum, indeed. Thanks very much! -- JMA ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Jos --0__=ksfvrVZWxQYiA1Nk9Br4AmErXI8Uc0ymDu3ZnyAoawu7TbadB3x7tgAX Content-type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-transfer-encoding: quoted-printable =E9 M=AA Alcaide | mailto:jose@we.lc.ehu.es Universidad del Pa=EDs Vasco | mailto:jmas@FreeBSD.ORG Dpto. de Electricidad y Electr=F3nica | http://www.we.lc.ehu.es/~jo= se Facultad de Ciencias - Campus de Lejona | Tel.: +34-946012479 48940 Lejona (Vizcaya) - SPAIN | Fax: +34-946013071 -----------------------------------------------------------------------= "Keyboard not present -- Press F1 to resume" To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message = --0__=ksfvrVZWxQYiA1Nk9Br4AmErXI8Uc0ymDu3ZnyAoawu7TbadB3x7tgAX-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message