Date: Wed, 10 Aug 2005 07:29:14 -0700 From: "Ted Mittelstaedt" <tedm@toybox.placo.com> To: "lars" <lars@gmx.at>, <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: RE: Anyone successfully running FreeBSD on a HP Proliant DL385? Message-ID: <LOBBIFDAGNMAMLGJJCKNGECLFCAA.tedm@toybox.placo.com> In-Reply-To: <42F924B0.8000503@gmx.at>
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See http://www.testdrive.hp.com/ >-----Original Message----- >From: owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org >[mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org]On Behalf Of lars >Sent: Tuesday, August 09, 2005 2:49 PM >To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org >Subject: Anyone successfully running FreeBSD on a HP Proliant DL385? > > >Hi all, > >I've just been to the FreeBSD Proliant website >http://people.freebsd.org/~jcagle/ > >I also checked the freebsd-proliant@freebsd.org archive, >apart from John Cagle's welcome message it's empty. > >Before I ask him I want to turn to this list. > >Judging by the variety of tools available on the site >it doesn't look that bad for FreeBSD on these machines. > > > >But I'm still interested whether anyone's already running >FreeBSD STABLE on a DL385, >maybe even with >~3GB RAM, >an Opteron CPU, >~4 SCSI disks in a RAID-5 array hosted by the onboard Smart >Array 6i chip, >a hot-swappable DAT72 tape drive, >and iLO. > >Are all devices working well, are the HDDs and the tape drive >hot-swappable, >is the iLO working as it should? > >Any issues? > >I'd really like to drive this machine with FreeBSD, >but I can't afford to waste more than 3 days testing functionality >before it has to be productive. >So I'd be really thankful for any information on this combination. > >Kind regards, >Lars. > >_______________________________________________ >freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list >http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions >To unsubscribe, send any mail to >"freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >
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