Date: Mon, 07 Jan 2008 16:35:07 -0500 From: "Brian A. Seklecki" <lavalamp@spiritual-machines.org> To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Cc: "todora "@scorec.rpi.edu, ebbe@bornholmermail.dk, jcmichot@usenet-fr.net Subject: PowerEdge 860 Message-ID: <1199741707.5046.54.camel@soundwave.ws.pitbpa0.priv.collaborativefusion.com>
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Hi all: There are scattered reports in late 2006 / early 2007 of success using the PE 860 w/ the SAS RAID, but not w/o the RAID (normally paired with a non-Xeon). Would anyone be willing to share some dmesg(8) output? W/ or w/o the RAID PERC SAS5iR mfi(4)? RELENG_6 or RELENG_7? Post your dmesg(8) to dmesgd at NYCBUG? Here's an 850 w/o RAID: http://www.nycbug.org/?NAV=dmesgd;f_dmesg=;f_bsd=;f_nick=;f_descr=poweredge;dmesgid=1724#1724 I'm curious how far the 860 is from the 850? Presumably they replaced with bge(4) with bce(4) (They offer both add on "BC NetXtreme II 5708 1-Port" as well as "NetXtreme 5721") and also replaced ICH7 with ICH8 or ICH9, but I'd like to check with other satisfied customers. An OpenBSD dmesg(8) suggests "Intel 82801GB IDE" http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/openbsd/2007-02/0571.html ...But that's in a model with a SAS5iR installed where the optical disk is attache. The IDE controller may be different with no RAID. The lower-end 850 w/ the Core2 or genuine P4 non-Xeon is essentially desktop-class hardware, so I don't imagine anything too exotic. TIA, ~BAS
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