Date: Mon, 15 Jan 2007 00:01:41 -0800 From: Josef Grosch <jgrosch@MooseRiver.com> To: Philippe Lang <philippe.lang@attiksystem.ch> Cc: freebsd-questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: SuperMicro 2U servers? Message-ID: <20070115080141.GA45345@mooseriver.com> In-Reply-To: <6C0CF58A187DA5479245E0830AF84F4218CD2D@poweredge.attiksystem.ch> References: <20070113225018.GA22396@mooseriver.com> <6C0CF58A187DA5479245E0830AF84F4218CD2D@poweredge.attiksystem.ch>
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--GvXjxJ+pjyke8COw Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Mon, Jan 15, 2007 at 08:28:02AM +0100, Philippe Lang wrote: > owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org wrote: >=20 > > On Thu, Jan 11, 2007 at 08:43:06AM +0100, Philippe Lang wrote: > >> Hi, > >>=20 > >> Is anyone using FreeBSD 6.X in production on SuperMicro 2U servers? > >>=20 > >> http://www.supermicro.com/products/system/2U/ > >>=20 > >> Thanks for the info, > >>=20 > >> Philippe Lang > >=20 > >=20 > > Yep, > >=20 > > We are using them at Juniper Networks. We have had very good luck > > with them. However we use SCSI disk instead of SATA so I don't know > > how well SATA works with FreeBSD 6.x. Our setup is 2 - dual core > > CPUs, 4 gig of ram, a pair of Adaptec SCSI RAID controllers. The OS > > disk is a pair of 72 gig SCSI mirrored and the other 6 bays have some > > configuration of SCSI disk in RAID 10. We use FreeBSD 6.2-RC2 because > > these motherboards use the Intel network chips and there was a > > problem with the em device. The patch to fix this got committed > > sometime in late October. =20 > >=20 > >=20 > > Josef >=20 > Hi Josef, thanks for your answer. >=20 > Are you using this motherboard? >=20 > http://www.supermicro.com/products/motherboard/Xeon1333/5000P/X7DBE.cfm >=20 > I have just check on FreeBSD 6.2R hardware compatibility list, and they > don't mention the network controller. It's an >=20 > - Intel(r) (ESB2/Gilgal) 82563EB Dual-Port Gigabit Ethernet Controller >=20 > Hardware compatibility list says: >=20 > - The em(4) driver supports Gigabit Ethernet adapters based on the Intel > 82540, 82541ER, 82541PI, 82542, 82543, 82544, 82545, 82546, 82546EB, > 82546GB, 82547, 82571, 82572 and 82573 controller chips >=20 > Does the documentation simply need to be updated maybe? >=20 > Bye >=20 > Philippe I just looked at the specs, the servers we are currently ordering are Supermicros with the X6DHE-G2 motherboard.=20 http://www.supermicro.com/products/motherboard/Xeon800/E7520/X6DHE-G2.cfm We has had to use only 32bit processors because we are stuck we an old vendor library (Don't ask)=20 Josef --=20 Josef Grosch | Another day closer to a | FreeBSD 6.2 jgrosch@MooseRiver.com | Micro$oft free world | Berkeley, Ca. --GvXjxJ+pjyke8COw Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iD8DBQFFqzTjy8prLS1GYSERAtrxAJ0aspwef7nUWCYBeU9a3+5z/mt6kgCeOk/8 Qu2f+GGX4CPV3K0xbn0CdK0= =+MEg -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --GvXjxJ+pjyke8COw--
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