Date: Thu, 25 Aug 2011 14:08:28 -0400 From: Tim Kellers <timothyk@wallnet.com> To: Maxim Khitrov <max@mxcrypt.com> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: shopping for a new server Message-ID: <4E568F9C.7090403@wallnet.com> In-Reply-To: <CAJcQMWfB_%2BL17dB6Z2GHj-H2%2B%2BUP3=eBt=ySy3_QWaxskz%2BBtw@mail.gmail.com> References: <4E567C14.7070909@wallnet.com> <CAJcQMWfB_%2BL17dB6Z2GHj-H2%2B%2BUP3=eBt=ySy3_QWaxskz%2BBtw@mail.gmail.com>
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Thank you Max, that sounds like good news so far. Tim Kellers On 08/25/11 13:57, Maxim Khitrov wrote: > On Thu, Aug 25, 2011 at 12:45 PM, Tim Kellers<timothyk@wallnet.com> wrote: >> Dell 2500 from 10 years back is soon to be very dead in the machine room at >> work. I'm thinking about replacing it with a Rack mount Dell R610 has >> anyone used that and has compatibility issues or successes? I'll be using a >> RAID 5 setup and PERC version is up to 6i in this box, any issues with this >> PERC? The specs indicate R610 will way outperform the old 2500. The 2500 >> currently supports mail (sendmail), web, db (pgsql and mysql), samba, etc. >> >> I Googled and found a bunch of somewhat older posts that showed some NIC >> issues and some PERC issues but it looked like most issues had been >> corrected by the beginning of 2011. Does anyone have any recent >> duccess/failure stories? >> >> I'd probably be looking to run 8.2 RELEASE AMD or 9.0 AMD when it becomes >> release. >> >> Thanks >> >> Tim > I'm currently configuring FreeBSD 8.2 amd64 on an R610 with PERC H700 > RAID controller. H700 uses the mfi(4) driver, I think that also goes > for PERC 6/I. Network uses the bce(4) driver. No real problems to > report. > > One minor issue I ran into is that disabling serial ports in BIOS > causes FreeBSD to freeze when booting. The solution is simply to set > serial ports to be "On without Console Redirection." You should also > leave Intel I/OAT disabled, since FreeBSD has no support for it. > > - Max > >
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