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Date:      Fri, 30 Mar 2001 16:46:47 +0200
From:      Laura Gioia <l.gioia@inet.it>
To:        Brice Gensburger <vivelame@shyne.worldnet.net>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Do IBM Netfinity Servers Run Freebsd Well?
Message-ID:  <20010330164647.D39655@satori.inet.it>
In-Reply-To: <4.3.1.0.20010330164223.02bef200@shyne.worldnet.net>; from vivelame@shyne.worldnet.net on Fri, Mar 30, 2001 at 04:45:16PM %2B0200
References:  <E14j012-0006Rz-00@dc.cis.okstate.edu> <4.3.1.0.20010330164223.02bef200@shyne.worldnet.net>

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On Fri, Mar 30, 2001 at 04:45:16PM +0200, Brice Gensburger wrote:
> At 08:36 30/03/01 -0600, you wrote:
> 
> >         How well do they work with freebsd?  Is there anything we
> >need to be especially concerned about?
> 
> it may depend on the exact model..
> we have some netfinity 4500 here, nifty beasties, with Raid Cards
> alas, haven't been able to bring up the IBM Raid controller under FreeBSD, 
> so at the moment, they're running debian .. :-/

I know the feeling :(
I've installed some Netfinity 4500 for our customers and it's quite difficult with Linux too to manage with the ServeRaid (Redhat did images of boot floppies for the purpose, dunno Debian), we tried with FreeBSD and it was impossible.  
-- 
Laura Gioia
I.net Spa - Housing Dpt.
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ACK and you shall receive.

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