From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Feb 9 12:54:54 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F2E14106568F for ; Tue, 9 Feb 2010 12:54:53 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from karl@denninger.net) Received: from FS.denninger.net (wsip-70-169-168-7.pn.at.cox.net [70.169.168.7]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C155D8FC1E for ; Tue, 9 Feb 2010 12:54:53 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [127.0.0.1] (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by FS.denninger.net (8.14.3/8.13.1) with SMTP id o19CsrFX054070 for ; Tue, 9 Feb 2010 06:54:53 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from karl@denninger.net) Received: from [127.0.0.1] [192.168.1.40] by Spamblock-sys (LOCAL); Tue Feb 9 06:54:53 2010 Message-ID: <4B715AC6.5090500@denninger.net> Date: Tue, 09 Feb 2010 06:53:26 -0600 From: Karl Denninger User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.23 (Windows/20090812) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Jeremy Chadwick References: <4B6F9A8D.4050907@langille.org> <4B70FEEC.6070007@modulus.org> <20100209063310.GA23387@icarus.home.lan> In-Reply-To: <20100209063310.GA23387@icarus.home.lan> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.96.0 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="------------050901070102000703020002" X-Antivirus: avast! (VPS 100208-2, 02/08/2010), Outbound message X-Antivirus-Status: Clean X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: hardware for home use large storage X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 09 Feb 2010 12:54:54 -0000 This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --------------050901070102000703020002 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Jeremy Chadwick wrote: > On Tue, Feb 09, 2010 at 05:21:32PM +1100, Andrew Snow wrote: > >> http://www.supermicro.com/products/motherboard/ATOM/ICH9/X7SPA.cfm?typ=H >> >> Supermicro just released a new Mini-ITX fanless Atom server board >> with 6xSATA ports (based on Intel ICH9) and a PCIe 16x slot. It >> takes up to 4GB of RAM, and there's even a version with KVM-over-LAN >> for headless operation and remote management. >> > > Neat hardware. But with regards to the KVM-over-LAN stuff: it's IPMI, > and Supermicro has a very, *very* long history of having shoddy IPMI > support. I've been told the latter by too many different individuals in > the industry (some co-workers, some work at Yahoo, some at Rackable, > etc.) for me to rely on it. If you *have* to go this route, make sure > you get the IPMI module which has its own dedicated LAN port on the > module and ***does not*** piggyback on top of an existing LAN port on > the mainboard. > What's wrong with the Supermicro IPMI implementations? I have several - all have a SEPARATE LAN port on the main board for the IPMI KVM (separate and distinct from the board's primary LAN ports), and I've not had any trouble with any of them. -- Karl --------------050901070102000703020002--