Date: Tue, 22 Aug 2006 06:58:46 -0400 From: DW <spock@dwinner.net> To: Josh Paetzel <josh@tcbug.org> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD on Dell PE850 Message-ID: <44EAE366.2060106@dwinner.net> In-Reply-To: <200608211833.50505.josh@tcbug.org> References: <200608211833.50505.josh@tcbug.org>
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Josh Paetzel wrote: > Does anybody have any experience running FBSD 6.x on a PE850? I'm > specifically wondering about support for their base-configuration > onboard NIC and their CERC SATA RAID controller. > > I have not upgraded to 6.x yet, but have been running 5.5 very successfully on over twenty PE850's in production. CERC SATA RAID (configured as two-drive mirrors) was a cinch, as was the onboard NIC (bge: Broadcom BCM5721 Gigabit Ethernetb). I don't see any reason why 6.x would cause any problems. Nothing special to note on installation.
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