Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2001 21:50:24 -0700 From: "JannaDanRich" <house@lvcm.com> To: "Ted Mittelstaedt" <tedm@toybox.placo.com>, "Linh Pham" <lplist@closedsrc.org> Cc: "Patrick Calkins" <pcalkins@oemsupport.com>, "Freebsd-Hardware (E-mail)" <freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG>, "Freebsd-Questions (E-mail)" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Which hardware vender for FreeBSD? Message-ID: <060601c0ca1e$9454f800$1616160a@neoone> References: <005101c0ca1e$27416280$1401a8c0@tedm.placo.com>
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have read a lot of good things about vinum, and if you aren't really needing RAID V .. it is much much faster and, well, free ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ted Mittelstaedt" <tedm@toybox.placo.com> To: "Linh Pham" <lplist@closedsrc.org> Cc: "Patrick Calkins" <pcalkins@oemsupport.com>; "Freebsd-Hardware (E-mail)" <freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG>; "Freebsd-Questions (E-mail)" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Sent: Friday, April 20, 2001 9:47 PM Subject: RE: Which hardware vender for FreeBSD? > We have found that all of the _pci_ versions are supported > (Compaq decided to use the same register interface to make it > easier to write drivers) Unfortunately, EISA raid controllers > are a crapshoot - some work, some don't. I'd very much like to > see more results of testing of that. Fortunately, used > Compaq pci RAID controllers are plentiful on Ebay (the > fools that buy used systems and part them out somehow > think that the RAID card is this supervaluable card and so > they are pretty cheap too) > > Ted Mittelstaedt tedm@toybox.placo.com > Author of: The FreeBSD Corporate Networker's Guide > Book website: http://www.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com > > > >-----Original Message----- > >From: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG > >[mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of Linh Pham > >Sent: Friday, April 20, 2001 9:22 PM > >To: Ted Mittelstaedt > >Cc: Patrick Calkins; Freebsd-Hardware (E-mail); Freebsd-Questions > >(E-mail) > >Subject: RE: Which hardware vender for FreeBSD? > > > > > >On 2001-04-20, Ted Mittelstaedt scribbled: > > > ># This isn't true for Compaq - they sell preloaded Linux systems. > ># Please check the following URL: > ># > ># > >http://www.compaq.com/products/workstations/software-platform/osmatri x.html > > > >What I meant is that not all of the Windows-based solutions are > >available for the servers that come with Linux pre-loaded. This is > >changing, some quicker than others... but it's not easy to get a > >quad-processor server with Linux pre-loaded... from Compaq anyways :) > > > ># They ALSO have at least one Intel-based system running FreeBSD > ># in their testdrive center (although they do NOT sell preloaded > ># FreeBSD systems) > > > >Unfortunately... nor do they have any Alpha based workstations > >pre-loaded with FreeBSD like one of their Alpha test-drive servers :( > > > ># There is also the ida driver which supports the Compaq SmartRaid > ># controllers. > > > >Do you know which versions of the SmartRAID controller is supported. I > >do have a fairly old Compaq server running FreeBSD, but I would like to > >get it on a DL380 or something as a hefty mail/DNS server for work. > > > >-- > >Linh Pham > >[lplist@closedsrc.org] > > > >// 404b - Brain not found > > > > > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > >with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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