From owner-freebsd-stable Thu Jun 29 8:49:21 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from turtle.looksharp.net (cc360882-a.strhg1.mi.home.com [24.2.221.22]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0D2AD37B656 for ; Thu, 29 Jun 2000 08:49:14 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bandix@looksharp.net) Received: from localhost (bandix@localhost) by turtle.looksharp.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id LAA61448 for ; Thu, 29 Jun 2000 11:50:06 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from bandix@looksharp.net) Date: Thu, 29 Jun 2000 11:50:06 -0400 (EDT) From: "Brandon D. Valentine" To: FreeBSD-STABLE Subject: Compaq ProLiant 6500 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I've recently been offered a great deal on a Compaq ProLiant 6500. I was looking for success and/or horror stories before I go ahead and buy it. But I think it's a pretty exciting machine. It's a 4-way PPro, 7U RM, with all kinds of goodies. I2O support and the whole bit. I know there are a lot of Dell fans on this list, but if they were presented with this offer, they'd buy a Compaq too. I'm gonna put it in my rack at home and probably run the SMP code from -stable on it. I've already got 2 dual SMP boxen running it and am quite happy. I've also got a third dual SMP motherboard I'm contemplating taking through the -current SMP trials as a tester. But I digress..anyone have experience with FreeBSD on one of these or a similiar machine and can make a recommendation? If there's some aspect of the hardware configuration you'd need to give me a recommendation, it's available from: http://www.compaq.com/products/servers/proliant6500/index.html Thanks. Brandon D. Valentine -- bandix at looksharp.net | bandix at structbio.vanderbilt.edu "Truth suffers from too much analysis." -- Ancient Fremen Saying To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message