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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
> >
> >
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