From owner-freebsd-stable Thu Nov 15 8:24: 1 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from apollo.backplane.com (apollo.backplane.com [216.240.41.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1B4DC37B405 for ; Thu, 15 Nov 2001 08:23:59 -0800 (PST) Received: (from dillon@localhost) by apollo.backplane.com (8.11.6/8.9.1) id fAFGNpe27257; Thu, 15 Nov 2001 08:23:51 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dillon) Date: Thu, 15 Nov 2001 08:23:51 -0800 (PST) From: Matthew Dillon Message-Id: <200111151623.fAFGNpe27257@apollo.backplane.com> To: "Arthur W. Neilson III" Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: DELL 2550 boxen References: <200111140948340450.386219BA@smtp> Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG : :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.... :-- : -- 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message