From owner-freebsd-hardware Tue Sep 10 14:12:51 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A9EBF37B400 for ; Tue, 10 Sep 2002 14:12:48 -0700 (PDT) Received: from bunyip.cc.uq.edu.au (bunyip.cc.uq.edu.au [130.102.2.1]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 23C8D43E4A for ; Tue, 10 Sep 2002 14:12:47 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from csmith@its.uq.edu.au) Received: from [130.102.152.71] (tomsk.its.uq.edu.au [130.102.152.71]) by bunyip.cc.uq.edu.au (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id HAA02042; Wed, 11 Sep 2002 07:12:44 +1000 (GMT+1000) User-Agent: Microsoft-Entourage/10.1.0.2006 Date: Wed, 11 Sep 2002 06:23:02 +1000 Subject: Re: Dell Poweredge 500SC From: Christopher Smith To: Cc: Nick Tonkin Message-ID: In-Reply-To: Mime-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit 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 11/9/02 5:46 AM, "Nick Tonkin" wrote: > My venerable OEM that has been running FreeBSD since 2.x is dying. > > I'm looking at a Dell Poweredge 500SC as follows: > > Intel PIII 1.13 GHz > 512 Mb SDRAM > Ultra 3 (Ultra 160) PCI SCSI Adapter Card > 2 X 18 Gb 10k RPM SCSI drives > Add-in RAID 1 card > > Please, will this conf be supported by FreeBSD and wiil the RAID work -- > i.e. will I be able to mirror the drives for redundacy porpoises? If you mean the add-in RAID card supplied by Dell, then yes. It is a rebadged AMI MegaRAID card (device amr). If you mean some other card, then you should consult the supported hardware list on www.freebsd.org. -- +- Christopher Smith, Systems Administrator ------------------------------+ | Server & Security Group, Information Technology Services | | The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia, 4072 | +- Ph +61 7 3365 4046 | email csmith@its.uq.edu.au | Fax +61 7 3365 4065 -+ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message