From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Aug 9 18: 8: 9 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mass.osd.bsdi.com (mass.osd.bsdi.com [204.216.28.234]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DE9CD37B736; Wed, 9 Aug 2000 18:08:02 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from msmith@mass.osd.bsdi.com) Received: from mass.osd.bsdi.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mass.osd.bsdi.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id SAA02527; Wed, 9 Aug 2000 18:19:47 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from msmith@mass.osd.bsdi.com) Message-Id: <200008100119.SAA02527@mass.osd.bsdi.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.1.1 10/15/1999 To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Installation Problems on Dell PowerEdge 6100/200 In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 09 Aug 2000 11:12:21 PDT." Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Wed, 09 Aug 2000 18:19:47 -0700 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > On Tue, 8 Aug 2000, Mike Smith mumbled: > > > > If it is worth anything, I tried installing on a poweredge 2450 once and to > > > make a long story short couldn't get the onboard RAID to work or the SMP to > > > work. I hear it got sent back for something else (that wasn't a dell!) > > > > Onboard RAID will be working shortly (waiting for someome to lend me > > hardware), SMP works as of 4.1-RELEASE. > > The Dell PowerEdge 2450 server does not run off of an Intel chipset, > but rather the ServerWorks SMP 100/133Mhz chiset. > > I don't know if FreeBSD supports SMP on non-Intel chipsets or not, but > that might the problem :) You will note in my previous message that I said that SMP works on this system as of 4.1. Obviously, this means that we run on the RCC ServerWorks chipsets... -- ... every activity meets with opposition, everyone who acts has his rivals and unfortunately opponents also. But not because people want to be opponents, rather because the tasks and relationships force people to take different points of view. [Dr. Fritz Todt] To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message