From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Apr 20 21:52:41 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from 100m.mp200-2.esr.lvcm.net (100m.mp200-2.esr.lvcm.net [24.234.0.81]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 640F937B423; Fri, 20 Apr 2001 21:52:33 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from house@lvcm.com) Received: from neoone (cm082.44.234.24.lvcm.com [24.234.44.82]) by 100m.mp200-2.esr.lvcm.net (Mirapoint) with SMTP id ABF29843; Fri, 20 Apr 2001 21:52:19 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <060601c0ca1e$9454f800$1616160a@neoone> From: "JannaDanRich" To: "Ted Mittelstaedt" , "Linh Pham" Cc: "Patrick Calkins" , "Freebsd-Hardware (E-mail)" , "Freebsd-Questions (E-mail)" References: <005101c0ca1e$27416280$1401a8c0@tedm.placo.com> Subject: Re: Which hardware vender for FreeBSD? Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2001 21:50:24 -0700 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4522.1200 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4522.1200 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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" To: "Linh Pham" Cc: "Patrick Calkins" ; "Freebsd-Hardware (E-mail)" ; "Freebsd-Questions (E-mail)" 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