From owner-freebsd-amd64@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jun 14 17:46:45 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EA5FC16A47A for ; Wed, 14 Jun 2006 17:46:44 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from vivek@khera.org) Received: from yertle.kcilink.com (yertle.kcilink.com [65.205.34.180]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8F33443D4C for ; Wed, 14 Jun 2006 17:46:44 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from vivek@khera.org) Received: from [192.168.1.3] (unknown [192.168.1.3]) by yertle.kcilink.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6CE58B80D for ; Wed, 14 Jun 2006 13:46:43 -0400 (EDT) Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v750) In-Reply-To: <20060613103624.7740462b.kgunders@teamcool.net> References: <1A384146-1D91-498F-A96D-538A1056AACB@ocsny.com> <20060613154854.GA9037@dragon.NUXI.org> <20060613103624.7740462b.kgunders@teamcool.net> Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=sha1; boundary=Apple-Mail-14-201309515; protocol="application/pkcs7-signature" Message-Id: <64DB3D76-C7A7-4A2F-ABFA-6D87D70A9C14@khera.org> From: Vivek Khera Date: Wed, 14 Jun 2006 13:46:41 -0400 To: freebsd-amd64 List X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.750) X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Subject: Re: Sun Fire servers.... X-BeenThere: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting FreeBSD to the AMD64 platform List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 14 Jun 2006 17:46:45 -0000 --Apple-Mail-14-201309515 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed On Jun 13, 2006, at 12:36 PM, Ken Gunderson wrote: > These SunFire boxes look quite attractive so keep us posted > on your experiences w/them ;-) The X4100 are wonderfully stable with FreeBSD 6.0. I haven't upgraded to 6.1 yet, and I haven't figured out yet how to make the serial console work on them (might be wiring issues). I use external disks on a RAID array, since the internal disk controller wasn't support until just very recently in 6.x --Apple-Mail-14-201309515--