Date: Tue, 24 Nov 1998 15:30:18 -0800 From: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> To: "Pete McKenna" <pmckenna@uswest.net> Cc: smp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: SMP Xeon update Message-ID: <199811242330.PAA01653@dingo.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 24 Nov 1998 22:46:16 GMT." <9811242246.ZM22097@otto.oss.uswest.net>
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> > I was looking through the SMP Archive and haven't seen much recently on the > quad Xeon box you had been testing. > > We are looking for a MRTG box to do our network metrics and it looks > like this would hold us for awhile at the rate things are expanding. Can > you me update on what's happened and if the onboard controllers are > usable. We're are planning on running 3.0 release and only need 2 drives > on either an adaptec or the onboard controller (I'm a bit fuzzy on what > the onboard controller is) The box is running quite stable at the moment (3.0-current). I take it you're looking for something with a lot of compute legs? The system we have here is a pre-release Intel box; I don't know if it's actually available for purchase anywhere, and for your needs it's probably very much overspecified (3 PCI busses, 12-bay hotswap disk array). Both Acer and Toshiba were showing systems at Comdex using the same processor array but with only 1 memory card (4GB max) and a smaller I/O arrangement. The Toshiba system was the Magnia 7000; their pages say it comes with a 53C896 (ncr) chipset SCSI controller, so it should be just fine. They were showing it with the AMI MegaRaid, which wouldn't be so good, as we don't support it yet. The Acer system was, I think, an Altos 21000, which looked to be the same system down to the metalwork. Street price on these should be around the $10k mark according to Toshiba. -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-smp" in the body of the message
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