From owner-freebsd-chat Fri Dec 21 8: 2:35 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mail.wolves.k12.mo.us (mail.wolves.k12.mo.us [207.160.214.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 97A5137B41A for ; Fri, 21 Dec 2001 08:02:30 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail.wolves.k12.mo.us (cdillon@mail.wolves.k12.mo.us [207.160.214.1]) by mail.wolves.k12.mo.us (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id KAA56700; Fri, 21 Dec 2001 10:02:27 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from cdillon@wolves.k12.mo.us) Date: Fri, 21 Dec 2001 10:02:26 -0600 (CST) From: Chris Dillon To: Francisco Reyes Cc: FreeBSD Chat List Subject: Re: Just lost one to Linux. Compaq server support. In-Reply-To: <20011219174812.W5523-100000@zoraida.natserv.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Wed, 19 Dec 2001, Francisco Reyes wrote: > Recently we installed a mail server with some low end hardware > (IDE disks, 128MB Ram) and installed FreeBSD. I used a 3Ware card > with Raid 10 for redundancy. Even though the machine doesn't seem > to be having problems yet (just started to move users from another > mail server) because a HD failed and the machine freezed > networking wants to move to more "stable" hardware. We have Compaq > machines here. So they have a Compaq DL380 with Compaq Raid. > FreeBSD doesn't run on this so they are rushing (it seems they > find it more appealing to "play" with Linux) to install Linux (I > think RedHat) on it. FreeBSD should run on a DL380 just fine. The RAID controller is the only thing you might have trouble with, but as of a few days ago, STABLE now supports the Compaq SmartArray 5* series (ciss driver). If that was your problem with running FreeBSD on it, try a recent STABLE snapshot. -- Chris Dillon - cdillon@wolves.k12.mo.us - cdillon@inter-linc.net FreeBSD: The fastest and most stable server OS on the planet - Available for IA32 (Intel x86) and Alpha architectures - IA64, PowerPC, UltraSPARC, and ARM architectures under development - http://www.freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message