Date: Wed, 13 Mar 2002 14:40:38 -0800 (PST) From: Margie W <walemom@yahoo.com> To: hardware@freebsd.org, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Experiences with Compaq DL360 or 360 G2 Message-ID: <20020313224038.14156.qmail@web11008.mail.yahoo.com>
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Hey Fellow BSD People, I've been charged by my boss to set up a small, departmental HTTP/HTTPS and FTP server. I've had some great experiences with FreeBSD at home on my personal, older PC equipment. I'd like to recommend to my boss that we run FreeBSD (performance, free, etc.) in this project. I need you're help though! For the project, I must purchase a new server from Compaq. I can't custom build one, or utilize another manufacturer. That said, I am looking at the Compaq DL 360 (or newer DL 360 G2). Does anyone have any good or bad experiences they can relay to me about this model and compatibility with FreeBSD 4.5? I searched the archives and saw a SMP problem and BIOS fix, but is there anything else? I'm really looking for some reassurance before dishing out the cash. I'll admit this is the first time I'll be buying big-dollar, new hardware server for a BSD project & I'm a little aprehensive about recommending BSD when I'm not even sure it will run on the thing! My specific concerns are compatibility with: - the dual integrated NIC (2 Compaq NC7780 Gigabit Ethernet NIC Embedded 10/100/1000) - the SCSI RAID Controller (5i Controller, with 32MB memory) - the video card w/ X (ATI Rage XL) - Any issues with the larger capacity drives? I.e is there a maximum partition or drive size that I will run into issues with if I go with a 36 GB or 72 GB drive? Or should I just stay with 18GB? Any issues I should know about before recommending this as a solution? Should I stay with the older DL360, or do the G2? Thanks in advance! (pls. respond via e-mail as I am not a list member!!) __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Try FREE Yahoo! Mail - the world's greatest free email! http://mail.yahoo.com/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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