Date: Thu, 7 Sep 2000 01:26:50 -0300 (ADT) From: The Hermit Hacker <scrappy@hub.org> To: Mike Smith <msmith@freebsd.org> Cc: freebsd-smp@freebsd.org Subject: Re: NF7100R - Quad-Xeon machine ... Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0009070120170.572-100000@thelab.hub.org> In-Reply-To: <200009011931.MAA05477@mass.osd.bsdi.com>
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On Fri, 1 Sep 2000, Mike Smith wrote: > > > > Anyone have any experience with this? The server that we are picking this > > up to upgrade is currently running FreeBSD, and it was pretty much my > > first FreeBSD "slipped through the cracks" ... I'd prefer *not* to have to > > go to Solaris/x86 to support it, so ... > > > > The machine is spec'd out as: > > > > NF7100R/Xeon 700/1024KB/256MB/10 HS HDD/6HS PCI > > + Nefinity 700Mhz/1MB Upgrade II With Pentium III Xeon Processor > > + ServeRAID-4M Ultra 160 SCSI Controller > > > > I know there is a major cleanup/rewrite of the SMP code going on, and very > > much look forward to seeing that when it comes out ... I just want to be > > reasonably comfortable that FreeBSD 4.1-STABLE is going to be STABLE on > > that hardware ... > > You'll need a different RAID controller, since I haven't had the > opportunity to produce support for the ServeRAID, and you might want damn damn damn :( anything that I can do once this box gets in to help move that forward? I work at a "mostly Solaris" shop, and over the next year, the acting director of our dept happens to be someone that, over the past 3 years, I've been able to educate in the benefits of moving towards FreeBSD ... this past week, Sun put a nail in its coffin by letting her know that they don't have much commitment to Solaris/x86, so I have ~6 machines that are going to be converted over to FreeBSD over the next year ... two of them are Netfinity servers, plus this new one coming in. I don't mind dedicating the resources, and time, required to be able to support this, I just don't have the experience :( > to have a known-good ethernet card to hand because I had some funky > experiences with the old NF7000's and their onboard ethernet, but the > box itself should be fine. S'alright, in this, I won't touch anything but Intel cards ... about the only one that I've had very consistent good luck with across various OSs :) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-smp" in the body of the message
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