From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Feb 5 12:23:13 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4879316A418 for ; Tue, 5 Feb 2008 12:23:13 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from Benjamin.Close@clearchain.com) Received: from ipmail04.adl2.internode.on.net (ipmail04.adl2.internode.on.net [203.16.214.57]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 99D8913C458 for ; Tue, 5 Feb 2008 12:23:11 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from Benjamin.Close@clearchain.com) X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: Ah4FAC/kp0d5LVNCWmdsb2JhbACBWI5JASCcXA X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.25,307,1199626200"; d="scan'208";a="46311765" Received: from ppp121-45-83-66.lns10.adl6.internode.on.net (HELO mail.clearchain.com) ([121.45.83.66]) by ipmail04.adl2.internode.on.net with ESMTP; 05 Feb 2008 22:53:09 +1030 Received: from [192.168.155.54] (taurus.internal.clearchain.com [192.168.155.54]) (authenticated bits=0) by mail.clearchain.com (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id m15CN6Pv083337 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Tue, 5 Feb 2008 22:53:07 +1030 (CST) (envelope-from Benjamin.Close@clearchain.com) Message-ID: <47A8552A.2030601@clearchain.com> Date: Tue, 05 Feb 2008 22:53:06 +1030 From: Benjamin Close User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.9 (Windows/20071031) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Daniel Eischen References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV version 0.92, clamav-milter version 0.92 on pegasus.clearchain.com X-Virus-Status: Clean X-Greylist: Sender succeeded SMTP AUTH authentication, not delayed by milter-greylist-2.0.2 (mail.clearchain.com [192.168.154.1]); Tue, 05 Feb 2008 22:53:07 +1030 (CST) Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD on Sun Fire X4100 server X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 05 Feb 2008 12:23:13 -0000 Daniel Eischen wrote: > I've searched and haven't found a definitive "this all works" > response yet. Is anyone running some form of 7.0 or -current > one one of these systems? Does USB keyboard, SAS drives without > RAID, and all ethernet devices work as expected? > Runs like a charm. Only issues I've had are: o USB keyboard doesn't work in ddb, works fine in normal os. o Detection order of boot devices changed when I added a fibre channel card. Appart from that it runs great, all 4 nics recognised, mpt works with/out raid. Infact I hope to have it be an official FreeBSD mirror server in the not too distant future. Uptime: 75d23h15m45s Copyright (c) 1992-2007 The FreeBSD Project. Copyright (c) 1979, 1980, 1983, 1986, 1988, 1989, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994 The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. FreeBSD is a registered trademark of The FreeBSD Foundation. FreeBSD 7.0-BETA1 #0: Fri Oct 26 12:29:45 CST 2007 root@cis231691-c.ce.unisa.edu.au:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/WEETBIX WARNING: WITNESS option enabled, expect reduced performance. Timecounter "i8254" frequency 1193182 Hz quality 0 CPU: AMD Opteron(tm) Processor 248 (2193.77-MHz K8-class CPU) Origin = "AuthenticAMD" Id = 0x20f51 Stepping = 1 Features=0x78bfbff Features2=0x1 AMD Features=0xe2500800 AMD Features2=0x1 usable memory = 2133479424 (2034 MB) avail memory = 2057420800 (1962 MB) ACPI APIC Table: .. etc