From owner-freebsd-current Sat Feb 26 18: 8:19 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from xena.cs.waikato.ac.nz (xena.cs.waikato.ac.nz [130.217.241.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 39F4437B5E6; Sat, 26 Feb 2000 18:08:13 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from joerg@lucy.cs.waikato.ac.nz) Received: from lucy.cs.waikato.ac.nz (joerg@lucy.cs.waikato.ac.nz [130.217.241.12]) by xena.cs.waikato.ac.nz (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id PAA27945; Sun, 27 Feb 2000 15:08:09 +1300 (NZDT) Received: (from joerg@localhost) by lucy.cs.waikato.ac.nz (8.9.3/8.9.0) id PAA00870; Sun, 27 Feb 2000 15:08:07 +1300 (NZDT) Date: Sun, 27 Feb 2000 15:08:07 +1300 From: Joerg Micheel To: Michael Lucas Cc: questions@freebsd.org, current@freebsd.org, joerg@cs.waikato.ac.nz Subject: Re: HP servers and FreeBSD? Message-ID: <20000227150807.A859@cs.waikato.ac.nz> References: <200002252007.PAA12839@blackhelicopters.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii In-Reply-To: <200002252007.PAA12839@blackhelicopters.org>; from Michael Lucas on Fri, Feb 25, 2000 at 03:07:18PM -0500 Organization: SCMS, The University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand Project: WAND - Waikato Applied Network Dynamics, DAG Operating-System: ... drained by Solaris 7 SPARC Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Mike, On Fri, Feb 25, 2000 at 03:07:18PM -0500, Michael Lucas wrote: > I've been offered a deal on a couple of HP servers. Does anyone have > any experience with the HP Netserver LC3 7/550? I have just installed a 0222 current on a HP Kayak XU800. This is one of the latest models. I'm experiencing problems with the builtin SCSI adapter AIC-7892. It could be BIOS/firmware related, a regular Adaptec works just fine. A detailed report will follow once I have sorted out these issues. > How about the HP Surestore DAT 12/24? Can recommend. I'm running a DAT40i (that's the 40GB drive, native 20GB DAT4). No problems with FreeBSD 3.2 and 3.3. Just bear in mind to use the proper tapes (DATn tapes for DATn density) for whatever purpose you have in mind. Some people have *very* bad experience with helical scan drives in general. If you have time to wait, perhaps one of the upcoming tape technologies (LTO) could be a better choice. Joerg -- Joerg B. Micheel Email: Waikato Applied Network Dynamics Phone: +64 7 8384794 The University of Waikato, CompScience Fax: +64 7 8384155 Private Bag 3105 Pager: +64 868 38222 Hamilton, New Zealand Plan: TINE and the DAG's To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message