Date: Wed, 04 Dec 2002 13:11:50 -0500 (EST) From: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> To: Oliver Blasnik <oliver.blasnik@de.tiscali.com> Cc: smp@FreeBSD.ORG, beemern <beemern@ksu.edu>, Lanny Baron <lnb@FreeBSDsystems.com> Subject: Re: Intel SE7500CW2 narrowed down... Message-ID: <XFMail.20021204131150.jhb@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <01ed01c29bb9$d8027550$1d0a310a@de.tiscali.com>
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On 04-Dec-2002 Oliver Blasnik wrote: > Hi Lanny, > > From: "Lanny Baron" <lnb@FreeBSDsystems.com> > > ["Our Servers do work with FreeBSD"] >> So in short, and yes this is repetitive, if you or the other fellow had >> chosen us to build you a Server, you and the other fellow would not have >> encountered the SMP problem and, you would still be running FreeBSD. > > Even worse, multiple times... "FreeBSD SMP for Lannys servers"? ;) > > And, no, why should we buy (a) from the US and (b) from a "small" OEM? > Working in a european-wide company has some side effects - for example > a policy to buy only specific servers from specific vendors (which have > to be available in all that countrys). So, there are only the "Big > Players", f.ex. HP, SUN, ...´ > > Back to track: this is no solution; buying hardware by OS needs and not > by system needs/policy/[insert-any-other-reason]. If the OS doesn't work > with a standard hardware it's simply of no use. Don't get me wrong, I > WANT to use FreeBSD - but this isn't my choice anymore if it does not run > on our typical hardware. I hate to use Linux and I definately hate to > use Solaris (and even pay for that crap). The problem here (which people don't seem to realize) is that this ServerWorks mobo BIOS is exhibiting NON-STANDARD behavior. Go complain to SW about their BIOS or get them to tell us what in the world they have changed so we can work around it. -- John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> <>< http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.FreeBSD.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-smp" in the body of the messagehelp
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