From owner-freebsd-hardware Tue Sep 28 5:44:25 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from polaris.we.lc.ehu.es (polaris.we.lc.ehu.es [158.227.6.43]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3AB0C152A6 for ; Tue, 28 Sep 1999 05:41:44 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jose@we.lc.ehu.es) Received: from we.lc.ehu.es (garatu [158.227.6.222]) by polaris.we.lc.ehu.es (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id OAA14569; Tue, 28 Sep 1999 14:40:42 +0200 (MET DST) Message-ID: <37F0B746.35D4DA84@we.lc.ehu.es> Date: Tue, 28 Sep 1999 14:40:38 +0200 From: "Jose M. Alcaide" Organization: Universidad del =?iso-8859-1?Q?Pa=EDs?= Vasco - Dpto. de Electricidad y =?iso-8859-1?Q?Electr=F3nica?= X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.6 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 3.3-RELEASE i386) X-Accept-Language: es-ES, es, en-US, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Michael.Still@ipaustralia.gov.au Cc: Doug.Jackson@ipaustralia.gov.au, carl@xena.IPAustralia.gov.au, freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Dell PowerEdge 6300 with 4 Xeon processors ? References: <4A2567FA.003B9B0A.00@noteshub01.aipo.gov.au> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Michael.Still@ipaustralia.gov.au wrote: > > We run Dell PowerEdge 2300, 4300 and 6300 machines with FreeBSD 3.2 just fine. > You should be aware that the install dies if you have too much RAM, we had to go > down from 2GB to 128 MB when we ran the install CD. You are right to put the > extra memory back in after that. One little question: are you running FreeBSD on quad processor 6300s ? > Also, be aware that the Power Edge Raid Controllers (PERCs), are not supported > by FreeBSD at the time. I have a feeling there is a driver in current, but we > have a policy of only running from release. We use vinum and it flies. I plan to use Vinum, indeed. Thanks very much! -- JMA ----------------------------------------------------------------------- José Mª Alcaide | mailto:jose@we.lc.ehu.es Universidad del País Vasco | mailto:jmas@FreeBSD.ORG Dpto. de Electricidad y Electrónica | http://www.we.lc.ehu.es/~jose Facultad de Ciencias - Campus de Lejona | Tel.: +34-946012479 48940 Lejona (Vizcaya) - SPAIN | Fax: +34-946013071 ----------------------------------------------------------------------- "Keyboard not present -- Press F1 to resume" To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message