From owner-freebsd-hardware Mon May 6 17: 4:59 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from wantadilla.lemis.com (wantadilla.lemis.com [192.109.197.80]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AEC3137B403 for ; Mon, 6 May 2002 17:04:54 -0700 (PDT) Received: by wantadilla.lemis.com (Postfix, from userid 1004) id 2C32C8163C; Tue, 7 May 2002 09:34:52 +0930 (CST) Date: Tue, 7 May 2002 09:34:52 +0930 From: Greg 'groggy' Lehey To: Troy Barnhart Cc: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Re: IBM pSeries servers ... Message-ID: <20020507093452.D75198@wantadilla.lemis.com> References: <20020506115136.G32524-100000@mail1.hub.org> <41847.207.108.15.11.1020701115.squirrel@webmail.rapidnet.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <41847.207.108.15.11.1020701115.squirrel@webmail.rapidnet.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.23i Organization: The FreeBSD Project Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-418-838-708 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.FreeBSD.org/ X-PGP-Fingerprint: 9A1B 8202 BCCE B846 F92F 09AC 22E6 F290 507A 4223 Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Monday, 6 May 2002 at 10:05:15 -0600, Troy Barnhart wrote: >> Anyone know if FreeBSD will run on one of these: >> >> > http://commerce.www.ibm.com/content/home/shop_ShopIBM/en_US/eServer/pSeries/entry/640B80_7026B80E.html >> >> I'm not familiar with what a 375 MHz POWER3-II is ... PowerPC. IBM's RISC replacement for the PC. The same processor family as in the Mac. > if anyone can get FreeBSD to run on a pSeries - without a MAJOR hack It'll be a major hack. > you will be my personal god... theoretically - shouldn't you be > able to run NetBSD on one of these? Not yet. There's a project under way. > are there drivers for SSA drives? I don't know. I have a similar machine here (dual processor 44p 270), and one of my background projects is to get FreeBSD or NetBSD running on it. From a FreeBSD perspective, I'd prefer to wait until Benno has his Mac port up and running :-) Greg -- See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message