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Ok Great, what about the Raid controller PERC 4e/SI ?
Thanks


On Mon, 2004-10-04 at 21:01, David Malone wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 04, 2004 at 04:03:03PM +0200, Jorn Argelo wrote:
> > Anyway, if I get it right it runs an dual Xeon with EM64T. If you want to use
> > that you will need the AMD64 port of FreeBSD 5.2.1. I'm not sure if EM64T is
> > backwards compatible with the x86 instruction code, so 4.10 will not be an
> > option. The main problem will be the RAID controller. SMP on 5.2.1 is also not
> > really top notch AFAIK. 
> 
> The AMD64 and EM64T chips start in a x86 compatible mode, so both
> will run 4.10 fine. I'm writing this from a 2850 now, running
> 4.10-STABLE.
> 
> 	David.