From owner-freebsd-isp Fri Nov 5 5:53:31 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from chuggalug.clues.com (chuggalug.clues.com [194.217.82.22]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2118815192 for ; Fri, 5 Nov 1999 05:53:21 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from geoffb@chuggalug.clues.com) Received: (from geoffb@localhost) by chuggalug.clues.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id NAA33221; Fri, 5 Nov 1999 13:52:55 GMT (envelope-from geoffb) Date: Fri, 5 Nov 1999 13:52:55 +0000 From: Geoff Buckingham To: Benoit Rossier Cc: freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD on DELL Poweredge 4300? Message-ID: <19991105135255.C32862@chuggalug.clues.com> References: <4.2.0.58.19991105142243.00b2af00@nocnoc.mcnet.ch> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.4i In-Reply-To: <4.2.0.58.19991105142243.00b2af00@nocnoc.mcnet.ch>; from Benoit Rossier on Fri, Nov 05, 1999 at 02:31:19PM +0100 Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Fri, Nov 05, 1999 at 02:31:19PM +0100, Benoit Rossier wrote: > Hi, > > Has anybody experiences with DELL hardware and FreeBSD? > > We plan to use Poweredge 4300 servers. > I bought about a dozen 2300s with rackmount kits at my last place of employment. Of the twelve one had a motherboard fail, which dell replaced promptly. THe machine were well made the only problem I had was dell ship scsi drives of the kind most easily available to them at the time, which gets messy after a while. I know some people order the machines without disks and order disks of their choice in carriers/cannisters from dell as spares. -- GeoffB To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message