Date: Sat, 6 Mar 2004 21:59:15 +0100 From: "Carsten Jonstrup" <carsten@buy-hp.dk> To: "Aaron Wohl" <freebsd@soith.com>, <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org> Subject: =?iso-8859-1?q?Re=3A_Intel=AE_Server_Board_SE7501WV2?= Message-ID: <001d01c403bd$e38e69c0$0300000a@butik> References: <002c01c4039e$52760980$0300000a@butik> <1078595762.15825.182214988@webmail.messagingengine.com>
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Hello. What server board do you then prefere ? /carsten ----- Original Message ----- From: "Aaron Wohl" <freebsd@soith.com> To: "Carsten Jonstrup" <info@buy-hp.dk>; <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org> Sent: Saturday, March 06, 2004 6:56 PM Subject: Re: Intel® Server Board SE7501WV2 We have two of these. They are a lot of trouble. Id find a different board. - at boot one or both processors will drop offline sometimes (the bios says the processor failed the test) if you use bios setting to retest they are fine -if you power off with IPMI then back on its not the same as unpluging and pluging it in again, if its flaking out you need to actualy unplug it - if you hook up a crash cart with a keyboard and monitor the keyboard cant type in. It can only see a keyboard at boot time - intel has a list of approved PCI-X cards which is pretty small. If its being flakey and you have any card in the buss not on the list they wont help you. - the serial console for the bios is rather limited. for example the raid controller we had wanted us to type the insert key to add a drive to a raid. but the serial console has no way to type an insert key - if any disk is added or removed (hot swap disk for example) it resets the boot order to enable network boot on both of the built in ethernets. Intel tech support it HAD to workt that way. So if your using one of these on an undfriendly network segment it can be taken over at boot time. - if you have a PCI video card installed then remove it the rom locks up at boot. all the other motherboards ive tried in such a case switch back to the internal video automaticly. - it can suposedly boot off of a USB cdrom... its a supported feature according to thier tech support. However they dont list any supported USB cdrom drive. They dont know which one they tested it with. We bought all the USB cdroms compusa sells and tried each one in turn and it wont boot off any of them. -The intel IPMI in the bios for remote control doesnt work over vpn. I dont know if thats a bug or feature of IPMI -IPMI for bios screen redirection doesnt work -Its very senstitive to order of which PCI card is in which slot... even with only one intel approved card on the bus. On Sat, 6 Mar 2004 18:13:18 +0100, "Carsten Jonstrup" <carsten@buy-hp.dk> said: > Hello. > > Can anybody say ok for the Intel® Server Board SE7501WV2 > http://www.intel.com/design/servers/se7501wv2/index.htm?iid=ipp_srvr+mthrbds_se7501wv2_srvr&; > > We plan to install FreeBSD 5.2.1. > > Thanks > > Carsten J > Denmark > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" _______________________________________________ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"
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