Date: Fri, 01 Sep 2000 12:31:39 -0700 From: Mike Smith <msmith@freebsd.org> To: The Hermit Hacker <scrappy@hub.org> Cc: freebsd-smp@freebsd.org Subject: Re: NF7100R - Quad-Xeon machine ... Message-ID: <200009011931.MAA05477@mass.osd.bsdi.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 01 Sep 2000 10:12:37 -0300." <Pine.BSF.4.21.0009011009020.743-100000@thelab.hub.org>
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> > Anyone have any experience with this? The server that we are picking this > up to upgrade is currently running FreeBSD, and it was pretty much my > first FreeBSD "slipped through the cracks" ... I'd prefer *not* to have to > go to Solaris/x86 to support it, so ... > > The machine is spec'd out as: > > NF7100R/Xeon 700/1024KB/256MB/10 HS HDD/6HS PCI > + Nefinity 700Mhz/1MB Upgrade II With Pentium III Xeon Processor > + ServeRAID-4M Ultra 160 SCSI Controller > > I know there is a major cleanup/rewrite of the SMP code going on, and very > much look forward to seeing that when it comes out ... I just want to be > reasonably comfortable that FreeBSD 4.1-STABLE is going to be STABLE on > that hardware ... You'll need a different RAID controller, since I haven't had the opportunity to produce support for the ServeRAID, and you might want to have a known-good ethernet card to hand because I had some funky experiences with the old NF7000's and their onboard ethernet, but the box itself should be fine. -- ... every activity meets with opposition, everyone who acts has his rivals and unfortunately opponents also. But not because people want to be opponents, rather because the tasks and relationships force people to take different points of view. [Dr. Fritz Todt] To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-smp" in the body of the message
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