From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jul 14 06:59:15 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7B0CB37B401 for ; Mon, 14 Jul 2003 06:59:15 -0700 (PDT) Received: from bragi.housing.ufl.edu (bragi.housing.ufl.edu [128.227.47.18]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C2F8E43F3F for ; Mon, 14 Jul 2003 06:59:14 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from WillS@housing.ufl.edu) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-2" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft Exchange V6.0.6249.0 content-class: urn:content-classes:message Date: Mon, 14 Jul 2003 09:59:13 -0400 Message-ID: <0E972CEE334BFE4291CD07E056C76ED8CBBCD9@bragi.housing.ufl.edu> X-MS-Has-Attach: X-MS-TNEF-Correlator: Thread-Topic: HP or Compaq servers. Thread-Index: AcNKDT4K2g9PyikLQQyvOQWGsPlovwAACeQg From: "Will Saxon" To: "Grzegorz Czaplinski" , Subject: RE: HP or Compaq servers. X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 14 Jul 2003 13:59:15 -0000 Gregory, We have a lot of their machines, and have been happy with them. While we = are still primarily a Microsoft shop, we do have one DL360G3 running = 5.1-RELEASE without difficulty. We also have another just like that one = running Slackware something. We are using 2 36GB drives in a 'raid-0' stripeset off the built in = Smart Array 5i+ controller. The machine has dual Xeon 3.06GHz processors = and 2GB of ram. We have not had any problems with the integrated = Broadcom ethernet controllers (bge driver). Everything is detected and = works great. I only have 2 complaints: One is that the keyboard port doesnt seem to work with our KVM solution = (a raritan paragon). The dongle we tried gets power from the keyboard = port and that works since we can get video. However, we did not get any = feedback from the keyboard. Plugging a keyboard directly into the = machine works fine and using the dongle on another machine with the same = keyboard works. We have seen this on both of the DL360G3's we have. The other issue is that there is no health monitoring driver for FreeBSD = yet. My understanding is that one is in development and near completion. = This would be a good thing - making world typically kicks the fans into = high speed, and the only way to quiet them back down is to reboot the = machine. I added CPU_SUSP_HLT to the kernel on that machine and it seems = to get noisy less often. When the fans go into high speed mode they are = pretty loud. Other than those two things, they are good machines that seem to work = just fine with FreeBSD.=20 -Will > -----Original Message----- > From: Grzegorz Czaplinski [mailto:G.Czaplinski@prioris.mini.pw.edu.pl] > Sent: Monday, July 14, 2003 9:37 AM > To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > Subject: HP or Compaq servers. >=20 >=20 > Hi there! > Does anyone can recommend an HP or Compaq server from the most recent > line? Any experience with those systems? Problems? >=20 > I need to get two servers and HP, Comapq seems to be the only=20 > option on > the market for me. >=20 > Do we have any webpage with hardware configuration for FreeBSD? >=20 > Your help will be great! >=20 > Cheers, > gregory > -- > Grzegorz Czaplinski > "The Power to Serve, Right for the Power Users!" -=20 > http://www.FreeBSD.org/ > Fingerprint: EB77 E19D CFA2 5736 810F 847C A70F A275 2489 469F >=20