Date: Thu, 08 Mar 2001 21:08:54 -0500 From: Benjamin Flom <benf@nexgen.com> To: Mikel King <mikel@ra.upan.org> Cc: frebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: supermicro motherboards Message-ID: <3AA83B36.1090903@nexgen.com> References: <20010308144916.A64421@ra.upan.org>
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We build and deploy the box that you specd out. 370DLE, 2 GHz processors, 2 GB RAM (4 x 512, make sure you use registered ECC or it won't work). I don't understand your I/O requirement from your email, but we used the DLE because we separate out I/O to a PCI card depending on the customer's needs. So far we have used 64 bit PCI RAID cards, the Adaptec 3200S (DPT VI in the Kernel, option asr). We haven't used the IDE controllers on these boards (or for that matter any Supermicro board) so I cannot comment on any issues related to these, but the floppy controller works fine. Kernel compiled cleanly, no complaints or problems (except that the Intel fans didn't fit the form factor of the board and we had to use the Supermicro supplied fans instead). One quirk with the Supermicro Server Work chipset boards is that they don't have an AGP slot. While this is not a performance issue it is a pain in the but to hunt down decent PCI video cards. Mikel King wrote: > Hi all. I've been tasked with building a new server and I am looking at > two motherboard from supermicro both have 64bit pci slots and support > atleast two 1ghz cpus. > > 370der with ati rage xl onboard, and scsi onboard & dual EIDE > 370dec just dual EIDE > > Anyone ever use a supermicro board? Are there any known issues w/ > freebsd? > > Cheers, > Mikel > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message
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