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To: Mikel King <mikel@ra.upan.org>
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Subject: Re: supermicro motherboards
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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
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