Date: Sun, 02 Apr 2006 18:33:58 +1000 From: sam <samwun@telpacific.com.au> Cc: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Sun Fire X2100 Server Message-ID: <442F8C76.3000701@telpacific.com.au> In-Reply-To: <E1FPxon-0002LR-00._pppp-mail-ru@f43.mail.ru> References: <E1FPxon-0002LR-00._pppp-mail-ru@f43.mail.ru>
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dima wrote: >>>>I want to installl FreeBSD 6.x in this server. >>>>Does anyone know whether FreeBSD Sparc version runs very well in this >>>>machine? >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>X2100 isn't a SPARC, but AMD64. You can install either i386 or amd64 version on it. It is based on desktop motherboard with nForce Pro chipset and the first ehternet adapter wouldn't work. >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>Thanks for the message. What s the first adaptor about? I know FreeBSD >>supports variety of Ethernet Adaptor, including bge (boardcom). I >>installed FreeBSD 5.3 on a HP proliant 10 months ago for my client, the >>machine has bge ethernet adaptor and it works great. >> >> > >The first adapter is some kind of nForce. FreeBSD has nve(4) driver for adapters like this, but it doesn't support nForce Pro chipset yet. Linux treats this card like the following: > >forcedeth.c: Reverse Engineered nForce ethernet driver. Version 0.48. >ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [APCH] enabled at IRQ 23 >ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:0a.0[A] -> Link [APCH] -> GSI 23 (level, low) -> IRQ 185 >PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:0a.0 to 64 >eth1: forcedeth.c: subsystem: 0108e:5348 bound to 0000:00:0a.0 > >The second adapter is actually Broadcom's Tigon3 [partno(BCM95721) rev 4101 PHY(5750)]. It is supported by bge(4). > >PS I failed to make SATA-RAID running. It's not an issue for me since I consider all the software RAIDs to be just evil. > > Can I assumed it can boots off FreeBSD from the its CDROM? Can you recomend a hardware RAID for it? Thanks Sam > > >>Thanks >>Sam. >> >> >> >>>>Pls see below for more info: >>>>http://store.sun.com/CMTemplate/CEServlet?process=SunStore&cmdViewProduct_CP&catid=138714 >>>> >>>> >>>>
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