Date: Sat, 20 Feb 1999 16:18:09 -0800 From: Don Wilde <dwilde1@thuntek.net> To: Robert Watson <robert+freebsd@cyrus.watson.org> Cc: advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Gateway Computers Message-ID: <36CF50C1.F463B360@thuntek.net> References: <Pine.BSF.3.96.990220113303.1066B-100000@fledge.watson.org>
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Robert Watson wrote: > > On Fri, 19 Feb 1999, Don Wilde wrote: > > > David Greenman wrote: > > > > > > Background: Micron has escentially given WC CDROM a NetFRAME 9201, which > > > is their highest-end enterprise server, for the next generation wcarchive. > > > It arrived yesterday and is sitting in my garage until I can find time to > > > get it configured and shipped out to San Francisco. > > > > My experience has been that all these machines are drop-ins for FreeBSD > > except for their (optional) RAID controllers and secondary processors. > > My problem has been that Micron has reliability problems, too many > > infant mortality failures in my experience. Yes, they fix them, but it > > leaves a bad taste in the mouth to have several replacements to fix one > > problem (PS, motherboard, whole machine, in one case!). Nobody's said, > > "it's your OS" yet, but I was expecting it... :-( > > I was curious about the RAID controllers myself--I know we do DPT quite > well, but getting a bundled server package is always nice. Do we support > their basic Symbios (or whomever) SCSI controller? > > By secondary processors, do you mean that 3.0+ of FreeBSD just doesn't > like their SMP support, or was that a 2.2 concern? > I have never played with 3.x multiprocessors, I was referring to 2.2.x. The SCSI, es, that was on The List. > Any chance that if cdrom.com is using them, we'll see better driver > support for Micron server machines? :-) Having a hardware vendor > specifically supported, especially a large one, would be great. And who > knows, with Dell jumping on the Linux bandwagon, maybe Micron would jump > on ours (or at least be willing to indicate that WC provides support for > FreeBSD OS stuff on their platform) I still think we should try for Dell. Much better reliability stats in my experience. > > Robert N Watson > > robert@fledge.watson.org http://www.watson.org/~robert/ > PGP key fingerprint: 03 01 DD 8E 15 67 48 73 25 6D 10 FC EC 68 C1 1C > > Carnegie Mellon University http://www.cmu.edu/ > TIS Labs at Network Associates, Inc. http://www.tis.com/ > SafePort Network Services http://www.safeport.com/ -- oooOOO O O O o * * * * * * o ___ _________ _________ _________ ___==__ V_=_=_DW ===--- Don Wilde dwilde1@thuntek.net [ = = ] /oo0000oo-oo--oo-ooo---ooo-ooo---ooo-ooo---ooo-oo---oo To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message
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