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Subject: Re: FreeBSD on Dell PE850
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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.