Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2008 07:34:33 +0100 From: Norman Maurer <norman@apache.org> To: "Brian A. Seklecki" <lavalamp@spiritual-machines.org> Cc: Olivier Nicole <on@cs.ait.ac.th>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: dell Power Edge 2950 Message-ID: <1199946873.8085.0.camel@norman-laptop> In-Reply-To: <20080109112208.G66279@arbitor.digitalfreaks.org> References: <200712270548.lBR5m0HT004974@banyan.cs.ait.ac.th> <20080109112208.G66279@arbitor.digitalfreaks.org>
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Am Mittwoch, den 09.01.2008, 11:24 -0500 schrieb Brian A. Seklecki: > On Thu, 27 Dec 2007, Olivier Nicole wrote: > > > Hello, > > > > This is just to confirm that Dell Power Edge 2950, with Quad Core Xeon > > E5420 is OK with FreeBSD 6.2/6.3. > > Make sure that you get a Revision 2 (R2). We had some serious stability > issues with two R1s. Yay for beta testing $6k servers. > > You'll want to read the entire thread about mfi(4) and bce(4) instability > on RELENG_6. Someone just reported a geometry size reporting error with > the new PERC/6 that Dell is pushing, so stick with PERC/5. > > My personal recommendation is to use em(4) and disable onboard Broadcom > and forget that Dell ever started shipping Broadcom. > > ~BAS We using 6.2-p9 on two Dell Power Edge 2950 without problems yet. bye Norman
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