Date: Tue, 6 Aug 2002 17:29:51 +0200 (CEST) From: "Hartmann, O." <ohartman@klima.physik.uni-mainz.de> To: freebsd-smp@freebsd.org Subject: Dual XEON P4 main-PCB and FreeBSD 4.6 (SuperMicro SUPER P4DL6 and Intel SHG2), experiences?? Message-ID: <20020806172901.O926-100000@klima.physik.uni-mainz.de>
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Dear Sirs. We need to upgrade and change our server hardware and I'm looking for new high-performance server platforms for P4 XEON systems. I have two mainboards in my focus, one is the Intel SHG2 and the other one is the SuperMicro SUPER P4DL6. The SuperMicro seems to be a very nice mainboard, but when I read the technical specs, I realized, that it is marked as DDR200-only main PCB, the Intel SHG2 is said to be capable to utilize DDR266 memories. In one of the famoust German computer magazines (c't) I read a test and they tested the SuperMicro with PC2100-2033 memory, so this implies that the SuperMicro also utilize DDR266 memory? Does anyone out here has experiences with both mainboards using FreeBSD 4.6-STABLE or FreeBSD 4.6.1? We have an AMI Enterprise 1600 RAID controller (PCI 64/66) that should be swapped over to the new machine in spe, so I need some tips and hints. In the past, FreeBSD has developed into a 'incredible' stability when using SCSI and SMP, I hope I can participate from this stability when changing our hardware 'on the fly'. Thanks a lot for your help in advance, Oliver -- MfG O. Hartmann ohartman@klima.physik.uni-mainz.de ------------------------------------------------------------------ IT-Administration des Institutes fuer Physik der Atmosphaere (IPA) ------------------------------------------------------------------ Johannes Gutenberg Universitaet Mainz Becherweg 21 55099 Mainz Tel: +496131/3924662 (Maschinenraum) Tel: +496131/3924144 (Buero) FAX: +496131/3923532 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-smp" in the body of the message
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