From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Dec 14 15:20:10 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 4885316A506 for ; Thu, 14 Dec 2006 15:20:10 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from wmoran@collaborativefusion.com) Received: from mx00.pub.collaborativefusion.com (mx00.pub.collaborativefusion.com [206.210.89.199]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 58C2443CC4 for ; Thu, 14 Dec 2006 15:18:19 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from wmoran@collaborativefusion.com) Received: from vanquish.pgh.priv.collaborativefusion.com (vanquish.pgh.priv.collaborativefusion.com [192.168.2.61]) (SSL: TLSv1/SSLv3,256bits,AES256-SHA) by wingspan with esmtp; Thu, 14 Dec 2006 10:19:54 -0500 id 00056403.45816B9A.000000CA Date: Thu, 14 Dec 2006 10:19:51 -0500 From: Bill Moran To: "Peter Grigor" Message-Id: <20061214101951.269c6303.wmoran@collaborativefusion.com> In-Reply-To: References: Organization: Collaborative Fusion X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 2.2.9 (GTK+ 2.10.6; i386-portbld-freebsd6.1) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org 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: Thu, 14 Dec 2006 15:20:10 -0000 In response to "Peter Grigor" : > 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? We're in the early stages of deployment with these. None of them are actually in production yet, but we're in the final stages of putting them there. 6.1 doesn't work with the onboard NICS -- you have to get a 6.2-RC or wait for 6.2. Otherwise, everything 64-bit works as far as we can tell. We're a little grumpy that we don't have any way to monitor the RAID (our Dell x850 systems use megarc to automatically signal us if a drive fails) We've also had occasional problems with the reboot and shutdown commands not completing, but it's been so intermittent that we can't seem to isolate the cause. Symptom is that it gets to the final stage of reboot/shutdown and then waits indefinitely without issuing the final ACPI command. Do some searches on my name and/or those topics on the stable@ list archives for more details. -- Bill Moran Collaborative Fusion Inc. wmoran@collaborativefusion.com Phone: 412-422-3463x4023