From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Oct 6 14:24:23 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id OAA26158 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Tue, 6 Oct 1998 14:24:23 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from laker.net (jet.laker.net [205.245.74.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id OAA26028 for ; Tue, 6 Oct 1998 14:23:55 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from sfriedri@laker.net) Received: from nt (digital-pbi-165.laker.net [208.0.233.65]) by laker.net (8.9.0/8.9.LAKERNET.NO-SPAM.SPAMMERS.AND.RELAYS.WILL.BE.TRACKED.AND.PROSECUTED.) with SMTP id RAA23658; Tue, 6 Oct 1998 17:23:38 -0400 Message-Id: <199810062123.RAA23658@laker.net> From: "Steve Friedrich" To: "freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG" , "Laurence Morell, MIS Coordinator" Date: Tue, 06 Oct 1998 17:22:48 -0400 Reply-To: "Steve Friedrich" X-Mailer: PMMail 98 Professional (2.01.1600) For Windows NT (4.0.1381;3) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: HP Netserver Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, 06 Oct 1998 16:21:33 -0400, Laurence Morell, MIS Coordinator wrote: >Our HR dept. has offered to donate an HP Netserver/66 LC for use as a >central SMTP >server for the corporation. We've been considering FreeBSD; however >according >to several FAQ items, there are some problems related to the built in >SCSI adapter >as well as with using a `dangerously' dedicated hard drive. Are these >issues still >viewed as problematic; should we graciously refuse the offer ? I'm assuming HR means Human Resources, and if that's the case, take the hardware. Besides grief, what did you ever expect to get from HR ;o) Seriously, even if the built in SCSI controller is not supported or not adequately supported, you can probably disable it and throw in a low cost (<$100) adapter that IS supported. And dangerously dedicated merely means it doesn't use a partition table, making it problematic if you also want to run other PC OSes. I had a problem with an IDE controller and a drive larger than 1GB, and it wouldn't boot as "dangerously dedicated", so I installed it not dangerously dedicated. I may have given up too soon, but I didn't really care. It works now... There may or may not be other issues with this particular piece of hardware. But keep in mind, if you can disable any piece, you can "replace" it with known hardware. In short, what are you waitin' for. Unix systems measure "uptime" in years, Winblows measures it in minutes. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message