From owner-freebsd-hardware Thu Mar 30 20:21: 9 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from dt051n0b.san.rr.com (dt051n0b.san.rr.com [204.210.32.11]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D26A237C33D for ; Thu, 30 Mar 2000 20:21:06 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from Doug@gorean.org) Received: from gorean.org (master [10.0.0.2]) by dt051n0b.san.rr.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id UAA65470; Thu, 30 Mar 2000 20:20:59 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from Doug@gorean.org) Message-ID: <38E427B1.F735A3DD@gorean.org> Date: Thu, 30 Mar 2000 20:21:05 -0800 From: Doug Barton Organization: Triborough Bridge & Tunnel Authority X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.72 [en] (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: up@3.am Cc: "Ron 'The InSaNe One' Rosson" , freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Motherboards for 2u Rack mounts References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org up@3.am wrote: > > On Thu, 30 Mar 2000, Ron 'The InSaNe One' Rosson wrote: > > > Well I got my dream come true... I have been assigned to build some > > servers based on server based motherboards. (sounds kinda corny). These > > servers are going to be housed in 2u rack mount cases. Since I have > > never had the luxury or the funding to accomplish this in the past I > > never looked at the hardware. Now I am looking and I feel totally > > unprepared on what is the best and best supported motherbaord to chose > > to put these into service with FreeBSD. > > I've been happy with Intel L440GX+'s, but they ain't cheap... I second that. You can even change the BIOS options from the serial console. Mondo cool. Doug -- "So, the cows were part of a dream that dreamed itself into existence? Is that possible?" asked the student incredulously. The master simply replied, "Mu." To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message