From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Dec 15 15:36:54 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3737E16A403 for ; Fri, 15 Dec 2006 15:36:54 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from josh@tcbug.org) Received: from rwcrmhc15.comcast.net (rwcrmhc15.comcast.net [204.127.192.85]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C3DF943CA4 for ; Fri, 15 Dec 2006 15:35:11 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from josh@tcbug.org) Received: from gimpy (c-24-118-186-172.hsd1.mn.comcast.net[24.118.186.172]) by comcast.net (rwcrmhc15) with ESMTP id <20061215153652m1500qdrjge>; Fri, 15 Dec 2006 15:36:52 +0000 From: Josh Paetzel To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Fri, 15 Dec 2006 09:36:45 -0600 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.4 References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200612150936.45781.josh@tcbug.org> Cc: Peter Grigor Subject: Re: Dell 2950 & 1950 X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 15 Dec 2006 15:36:54 -0000 On Thursday 14 December 2006 08:38, Peter Grigor wrote: > I've just gotten some quotes on a few dell machines and I was > wondering now if freebsd 6.x is able to run on them properly. > Perc/5i cards and 64-bit Intel chips are my worries :) > > Anyone have any experiences they'd like to share? Anyone > successfully running mysql on an IA64 architecture with Freebsd? > > Thanks for any feedback, > > Peter > <^_^> I've been using a 1950 with FBSD 6.1-R AMD64 for some time now. If you have the broadcom NICs you'll have to grab the drivers from -STABLE or 6.2-RC1 and recompile the kernel. I haven't had the shutdown issues that other people have mentioned, but you can get them with IPMI and reboot from there if it's an issue. Lack of in OS tools for the RAID controller is an issue, but it's my understanding that that's being worked on. mysql seems to run just fine, but this is primarily a fall-over box for me and hasn't really seen 'real' loads yet. -- Thanks, Josh Paetzel