Date: Tue, 05 Oct 2004 08:32:55 +0200 From: Key Dof <kde@europages.com> To: David Malone <dwmalone@maths.tcd.ie> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: PowerEdge 1850 Message-ID: <1096957974.96527.19.camel@ramses> In-Reply-To: <20041004190154.GA98373@walton.maths.tcd.ie> References: <1096891159.95899.15.camel@ramses> <20041004135545.M61493@wcborstel.nl> <20041004190154.GA98373@walton.maths.tcd.ie>
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Ok Great, what about the Raid controller PERC 4e/SI ? Thanks On Mon, 2004-10-04 at 21:01, David Malone wrote: > On Mon, Oct 04, 2004 at 04:03:03PM +0200, Jorn Argelo wrote: > > Anyway, if I get it right it runs an dual Xeon with EM64T. If you want to use > > that you will need the AMD64 port of FreeBSD 5.2.1. I'm not sure if EM64T is > > backwards compatible with the x86 instruction code, so 4.10 will not be an > > option. The main problem will be the RAID controller. SMP on 5.2.1 is also not > > really top notch AFAIK. > > The AMD64 and EM64T chips start in a x86 compatible mode, so both > will run 4.10 fine. I'm writing this from a 2850 now, running > 4.10-STABLE. > > David.
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