From owner-freebsd-stable Thu Aug 31 7:43: 1 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from luxren2.boostworks.com (luxren2.boostworks.com [194.167.81.214]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D98E637B43F for ; Thu, 31 Aug 2000 07:42:33 -0700 (PDT) Received: from boostworks.com (root@oldrn.luxdev.boostworks.com [192.168.1.99]) by luxren2.boostworks.com (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id QAA63852; Thu, 31 Aug 2000 16:42:01 +0200 (CEST) Message-Id: <200008311442.QAA63852@luxren2.boostworks.com> Date: Thu, 31 Aug 2000 16:41:55 +0200 (CEST) From: Remy Nonnenmacher Reply-To: remy@boostworks.com Subject: Re: ISP2150 To: roman@harmonic.co.il Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <967641066.39ad07ea73e44@webmail.harmonic.co.il> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/plain; CHARSET=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 30 Aug, Roman Shterenzon wrote: > Hello, > I know that this is kind of annoying question, but I just have to ask it, since > I was just told that I've to make an urgent installation of a file server > tomorrow, and since it's going to be an important machine I wanted to ask couple > of questions, please help me if you know something about it, it's very urgent, > and I don't have enough time to investigate.. :( > The hardware is Intel ISP2150 > http://www.intel.com/network/tech_specs/isp2150.htm > It's going to have two harddisk, and I want to use vinum's raid-1 on it and the > clients will use it via NFS. > I'm planning of installing FreeBSD 4.1-R, so here are the questions: > 1) Is there hardware is supported under FreeBSD (seems to me that it is) Yes. You will just have to use NBUS=5 in kernel SMP configuration since the 2150 uses an active riser card. Also use ECC RAM. > 2) Is there some known issues with the described modules in FreeBSD 4.1-R > i.e. vinum and nfs? Not known to me. Someone ? > 3) Should I upgrade it to -STABLE (I prefer not to), I was following this > mailing list, and I think that I haven't seen anything related. No. RN. IeM To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message