From owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jan 6 15:18:04 2004 Return-Path: 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 D373216A4CE for ; Tue, 6 Jan 2004 15:18:04 -0800 (PST) Received: from gaff.hhhr.ision.net (gaff.hhhr.ision.net [195.180.9.213]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 431D343D1F for ; Tue, 6 Jan 2004 15:18:03 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from ohoyer@gaff.hhhr.ision.net) Received: from gaff.hhhr.ision.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by gaff.hhhr.ision.net (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id i06NIAOL093754; Wed, 7 Jan 2004 00:18:10 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from ohoyer@gaff.hhhr.ision.net) Received: from localhost (ohoyer@localhost)i06NI9mt093751; Wed, 7 Jan 2004 00:18:09 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from ohoyer@gaff.hhhr.ision.net) Date: Wed, 7 Jan 2004 00:18:08 +0100 (CET) From: Olaf Hoyer To: Melvyn Sopacua In-Reply-To: <200401062350.26773.freebsd-hardware@webteckies.org> Message-ID: <20040107001419.K93299@gaff.hhhr.ision.net> References: <200401062350.26773.freebsd-hardware@webteckies.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII cc: FreeBSD-hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Recommendation for Dual-CPU systems X-BeenThere: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: General discussion of FreeBSD hardware List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 06 Jan 2004 23:18:04 -0000 On Tue, 6 Jan 2004, Melvyn Sopacua wrote: > > We're looking for systems in the Netherlands, price range 1500 - 2500 euro's, > 1 or 2u 19" rackmount systems. > > We've also informed with Dell, but they won't support FreeBSD, so my question > is twofold: > 1) I still see a lot of people on the lists working with Dell machines, so how > do they work around the "no support" issue? Is this really an issue when a > disk crashes or some other hardware component? > 2) Does anybody know of a hardware supplier that DOES support FreeBSD, > preferably operating in The Netherlands. Hi! Well, I had to do with some Dell's with Suse, which is also not really supported by Dell. Well, as far as you can tell the support guy, that it is really a hardware issue, that you have really verified, and that you won't install a windows prog to gather some data, it may work. Otherwise Dell may insist, that you use some stuff from the extra service partition on your RAID5 setup, and without they won't support you, as far as rumours from some colleagues spread... I personally prefer the Sun V60x and 65x, nice relabelled Intel boxes, with quality support. Or Supermicro, which are mostly handled by barebone-builders. Just my 0.02 EUR Olaf -- Olaf Hoyer ohoyer@gaff.hhhr.ision.net Fuerchterliche Erlebniss geben zu raten, ob der, welcher sie erlebt, nicht etwas Fuerchterliches ist. (Nietzsche, Jenseits von Gut und Boese)