From owner-freebsd-chat Fri Aug 30 14:14:27 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A21B737B400 for ; Fri, 30 Aug 2002 14:14:22 -0700 (PDT) Received: from proxy.centtech.com (moat.centtech.com [206.196.95.10]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 85BC643E3B for ; Fri, 30 Aug 2002 14:14:21 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from anderson@centtech.com) Received: from sprint.centtech.com (sprint.centtech.com [10.177.173.31]) by proxy.centtech.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g7ULEAY22564; Fri, 30 Aug 2002 16:14:10 -0500 (CDT) Received: (from root@localhost) by sprint.centtech.com (8.11.6+Sun/8.11.6) id g7ULE9j03968; Fri, 30 Aug 2002 16:14:09 -0500 (CDT) Received: from centtech.com (proton [10.177.173.77]) by sprint.centtech.com (8.11.6+Sun/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g7ULE6o03961; Fri, 30 Aug 2002 16:14:06 -0500 (CDT) Message-ID: <3D6FE01E.4050106@centtech.com> Date: Fri, 30 Aug 2002 16:14:06 -0500 From: Eric Anderson Reply-To: anderson@centtech.com User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i386; en-US; rv:0.9.4.1) Gecko/20020508 Netscape6/6.2.3 X-Accept-Language: en-us MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Doug White Cc: Clifton Royston , chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: [long] Server motherboard recommendations for 4.X/5.X? References: <20020830132138.F88354-100000@carver.gumbysoft.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: by AMaViS perl-11 Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Doug White wrote: >> If anyone wants to also recommend us a favorite rackmount server >>integrator, that wouldn't hurt. We're aware of FreeBSDSystems, ASA >>Computers, IXsystems, Arista IPC, and California Digital (formerly VA >>Linux) and have bought from the last few. We're particularly looking >>for one who can provide a system with dual power supplies fed from two >>separate power cords, similar to what you find on a high-end router or >>switch; we're thinking a 4U system for ease of adding any expansion >>cards we might need down the road. We'll install the OS, etc. but if >>we can take the assembly time off our hands that would be nice. Has anyone recommended Dell stuff? I'm sure they'll have something that fits you. I use all kinds of their stuff for FreeBSD, and the the RAID controllers are supported in FreeBSD easily. Eric -- ------------------------------------------------------------------ Eric Anderson Systems Administrator Centaur Technology The moon may be smaller than Earth, but it's further away. ------------------------------------------------------------------ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message