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Date:      Sun, 22 May 2005 18:05:24 +0300
From:      Danny Braniss <danny@cs.huji.ac.il>
To:        freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Cc:        Carl Makin <carl@xena.IPAustralia.gov.au>, mjacob@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Dell PowerEdge 1855 
Message-ID:  <E1DZs16-0003kH-I3@cs1.cs.huji.ac.il>
In-Reply-To: Message from Danny Braniss <danny@cs.huji.ac.il> of "Sun, 22 May 2005 17:12:19 %2B0300." <E1DZrBj-0001mj-K4@cs1.cs.huji.ac.il> 

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> > Hi Doug,
> > 
> > Sorry for taking so long to reply on this, been on 3 weeks leave...
> > 
> > On Fri, 8 Apr 2005, Doug White wrote:
> > 
> > > On Wed, 6 Apr 2005, Carl Makin wrote:
> > 
> > > > The boot sequence will hang if the USB drive is attached at boot.  There
> > 
> > > It seems to be acting like Uthe USB controller isn't getting interrupts.
> > > Does the problem recur on the installed system?
> > 
> > Yes it did however that chassis and the servers were a test loaner and
> > have been returned.  We have decided to go with the 1855 though (our
> > windows guy was *very* enthusiastic about them) and when they arrive I'll
> > run the tests you suggested.
> > 
> > Thanks!
> 
> so now i'm testing one too :-), any nice things to say about this blade?
> while trying out the scsi the blade panics :-)
> and as to cpu/memory power, it seems to be slower than the pe-1750
> 
> danny

nothing like talking to oneself :-)

i disabled the mirrowing, and now the disk io is nice, and more importanly, the
system does not panic, i guess the mpt/(aka da0: <DELL VIRTUAL DISK  IM 1998>) needs some work still :-)

danny





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