Date: Mon, 25 Feb 2008 10:26:50 -0500 From: John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org> To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Cc: Ivan Voras <ivoras@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: PC Specifications for Free BSD Message-ID: <200802251026.50731.jhb@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <fp9co2$fcg$1@ger.gmane.org> References: <37427D4BD8F5714F9E2431023DD081AC02CDF186@EAEDUMW004.eemea.ericsson.se> <fp9co2$fcg$1@ger.gmane.org>
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On Sunday 17 February 2008 08:27:29 am Ivan Voras wrote: > Hammad Tariq wrote: > > Hi, > > > > We have received following specifications from the local supplier > > regarding the PC specifications for RSG. > > > > Can you please provide your feedback on its compatibility. > > > > > > IBM x3250 eServer Xeon Dual Core (3050) 2.13GHz 1024MB (no HDD) CD LAN > > (ATI RN50 16MB) > > A friend of mine had problems with x3250; specifically with the mpt disk > controller he got shipped with it (LSI 1064E SAS/RAID). The problem > manifests in low IO performance on the drives and it's apparently > something in the driver. If you can verify that your machine doesn't > have this controller, or you don't care about disk IO performance, it's > a good enough machine. Did you use SATA disks? There was a recent patch a few months ago to make the mpt(4) driver enable the write-cache on SATA disks. It may require changing a loader tunable to enable it by default though. -- John Baldwin
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