Date: Thu, 15 Nov 2001 08:23:51 -0800 (PST) From: Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com> To: "Arthur W. Neilson III" <art@pilikia.net> Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: DELL 2550 boxen Message-ID: <200111151623.fAFGNpe27257@apollo.backplane.com> References: <200111140948340450.386219BA@smtp>
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:We are looking at purchasing some DELL 2550 2U rackmount servers,
:anyone using these puppies in a production environment with FreeBSD
:4.4 STABLE? Searched thru the mailing list archives and saw that some
:folks had a bit of trouble with 4.3 recognising the PERC controller.
:I'd appreciate any info anyone can provide....
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: -- Sherlock Holmes, "A Scandal in Bohemia"
: Arthur W. Neilson III, WH7N - FISTS #7448
: Bank of Hawaii Network Services
The DELL 2550's are *awesome* machines. We have a bunch of them. They
are very, very nice boxes.
note that FreeBSD supports just about everything on the box, including the
gigabit ethernet, but the gigabit ethernet is still somewhat experimental
and crashes on one of my 2550's on boot sometimes when I configure the bge
device (maybe we can nudge Bill Paul to revisit it if someone else can
reproduce the problem).
In anycase, the ones I have are duel-1.2 GHz and can build the world in
26 minutes. I think the newer ones go up to 1.9 GHz.
-Matt
Matthew Dillon
<dillon@backplane.com>
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