Date: Sat, 24 Mar 2001 15:11:00 -0500 (EST) From: Rob Simmons <rsimmons@wlcg.com> To: Ed Henderson <Ed.Henderson@Certainty.net> Cc: <freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Server MB suggestions? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.33.0103241502210.51344-100000@mail.wlcg.com> In-Reply-To: <000d01c0b476$532a5e00$0464a8c0@pnt004>
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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: RIPEMD160 I've had no problems with Asus motherboards. They are quite solid. I'm using the A7V with athlon processors for the most recent servers that I've built. Whereever I need RAID I've been using the Dell PERC/DC made by American Megatrends. It uses standard CL2 DIMM memory and is supported by the amr driver. As for a tape drive, I use the HP Surestore DDS3 6 tape changer. If you want something more reliable than DDS, which is probably one of the more reliable helical scan tape drives, look into DLT drives. They can get expensive, but they are much more reliable than DDS. One last thing. The Asus A7V has some wierdness with the ata driver in freebsd. I would not recommend using it in a server role if you were going to run ata drives on it - for now, until the ata driver problem is fixed. Robert Simmons Systems Administrator http://www.wlcg.com/ On Sat, 24 Mar 2001, Ed Henderson wrote: > I am planning to use FreeBSD as my primary OS for an ISP that I am starting. I am beginning my research for the best motherboard/hardware to use for a production environment. One that is reliable and performs well (with reliable being the number > one priority!). I plan to build the server myself. My background has been in Solaris on Sun equipment so most of the hardware choices were already made for me! > > Here are some questions that I have: > 1. Does anyone have any suggestions for a good MB to use? Or what chipset is the best and most stable with FreeBSD? I plan to use AMD Athlon chips, tower case, IDE drives/peripherals, at least 256MB RAM. Budget is limited since we are just beginning: approx. $1300 per server (not including tape drive which is seperate see #3 below). Servers will host typical ISP apps: DNS, RADIUS, mail, Apache, etc. > > 2. What IDE controllers do your recommend? Or would SCSI be better (but more costly)? I want to use at least RAID1 mirroring for some redundancy. > > 3. Any reliable tape drive suggestions? I have budgeted $1500 for a tape drive. > > 4. I am most familiar with building MSWindows systems and most of the time MB/chipsets require add'l software/drivers to be loaded when installing MSWindows. Since most boards are designed with MSWindows in mind does this present a problem when using FreeBSD as the OS? > > Thanks for the input! > Ed. > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.4 (FreeBSD) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE6vP9Yv8Bofna59hYRAxbqAJ9j3Zs1HYAwGrXz/0hp1fFqKx2oeQCgstBq TJQ32QQonYgtcfZgs7Mdo+Y= =KSxa -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message
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