From owner-freebsd-smp Wed Jan 24 14:18:57 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-smp@freebsd.org Received: from mail.wolves.k12.mo.us (mail.wolves.k12.mo.us [207.160.214.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 21CC037B698 for ; Wed, 24 Jan 2001 14:18:40 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail.wolves.k12.mo.us (cdillon@mail.wolves.k12.mo.us [207.160.214.1]) by mail.wolves.k12.mo.us (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id QAA71808; Wed, 24 Jan 2001 16:18:34 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from cdillon@wolves.k12.mo.us) Date: Wed, 24 Jan 2001 16:18:34 -0600 (CST) From: Chris Dillon To: "Kenneth D. Merry" Cc: Bob Willcox , John Gold , FreeBSD SMP list Subject: Re: supermicro 370DL3 In-Reply-To: <20010124150530.A2082@panzer.kdm.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-smp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Wed, 24 Jan 2001, Kenneth D. Merry wrote: > > It came in a bundled SuperMicro SuperServer 6040 system > > (http://www.supermicro.com/PRODUCT/SUPERServer/SUPER%20SERVER%206040%20Server.htm). > > The only thing you need to add to those bundled systems are the Socket > > 370 processors, the memory, and the SCA drives. It looked good, so I > > thought I'd give it a try. Pretty nice system for the money. Put it > > together with dual PIII-800's, 512MB PC133 ECC Registered SDRAM (thats > > the only kind it will take), a Mylex AcceleRAID 170 w/32MB, and three > > IBM 36LZX 10KRPM Ultra160 18.2GB HDs for about $4300. > > Nice system. Where did you get the server system? From CDW. http://www.cdw.com > Most of the places I've seen advertising the 370DE6 don't give you > any clear indication of whether it's in stock or not. The one > place that did (www.microx-press.com) doesn't have them in stock. We had to wait a couple of weeks to get this, since apparently it was backordered, or maybe Supermicro hadn't even started shipping the boards until recently, even though they had them up on their website and CDW had the part number for it in their database weeks ago. -- Chris Dillon - cdillon@wolves.k12.mo.us - cdillon@inter-linc.net FreeBSD: The fastest and most stable server OS on the planet. For IA32 and Alpha architectures. IA64, PPC, and ARM under development. http://www.freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-smp" in the body of the message