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Date:      Wed, 24 Jan 2001 16:18:34 -0600 (CST)
From:      Chris Dillon <cdillon@wolves.k12.mo.us>
To:        "Kenneth D. Merry" <ken@kdm.org>
Cc:        Bob Willcox <bob@immure.com>, John Gold <Gold@kr8.com>, FreeBSD SMP list <FreeBSD-smp@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: supermicro 370DL3
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.21.0101241615060.65986-100000@mail.wolves.k12.mo.us>
In-Reply-To: <20010124150530.A2082@panzer.kdm.org>

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On Wed, 24 Jan 2001, Kenneth D. Merry wrote:

> > It came in a bundled SuperMicro SuperServer 6040 system
> > (http://www.supermicro.com/PRODUCT/SUPERServer/SUPER%20SERVER%206040%20Server.htm).  
> > The only thing you need to add to those bundled systems are the Socket
> > 370 processors, the memory, and the SCA drives.  It looked good, so I
> > thought I'd give it a try.  Pretty nice system for the money.  Put it
> > together with dual PIII-800's, 512MB PC133 ECC Registered SDRAM (thats
> > the only kind it will take), a Mylex AcceleRAID 170 w/32MB, and three
> > IBM 36LZX 10KRPM Ultra160 18.2GB HDs for about $4300.
> 
> Nice system.  Where did you get the server system?

From CDW.  http://www.cdw.com

> Most of the places I've seen advertising the 370DE6 don't give you
> any clear indication of whether it's in stock or not.  The one
> place that did (www.microx-press.com) doesn't have them in stock.

We had to wait a couple of weeks to get this, since apparently it was
backordered, or maybe Supermicro hadn't even started shipping the
boards until recently, even though they had them up on their website
and CDW had the part number for it in their database weeks ago.


-- Chris Dillon - cdillon@wolves.k12.mo.us - cdillon@inter-linc.net
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