Date: Thu, 14 Dec 2006 10:53:19 -0800 (PST) From: John Polstra <jdp@polstra.com> To: hardware@freebsd.org Subject: RE: Is Dell SC1435 likely to work with FreeBSD? Message-ID: <XFMail.20061214105319.jdp@polstra.com> In-Reply-To: <XFMail.20061109084514.jdp@polstra.com>
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On 09-Nov-2006 John Polstra wrote: > Do any of you have an opinion as to whether the new Dell SC1435 is > likely to work with FreeBSD (either 6.x or -current)? I don't think > they're shipping yet, so I doubt anybody has actually tried it. The > machine has Opteron 2200 series CPUs with a Broadcom HT-2100 and > HT-1000 chipset, according to the spec sheet. For the archives: I bought one of these systems, a fairly inexpensive version with a SATA disk controller rather than the more expensive SAS controller. It works fine with the i386 version of -current. (I haven't tried an amd64 kernel.) The on-board gigabit NICs work well with the bge driver. I have been told that the mpt driver works with the SAS controller on the more expensive configurations of this box. Like most Dell servers I have used, the box is pretty loud. There is one strange thing with the SATA controller. In the boot messages I get this: atapci0: <ServerWorks HT1000 SATA150 controller> port 0xecb0-0xecb7,0xeca0-0xeca3,0xecb8-0xecbf,0xeca4-0xeca7,0xece0-0xecef mem 0xefdfe000-0xefdfffff irq 6 at device 14.0 on pci3 ata2: <ATA channel 0> on atapci0 ata3: <ATA channel 1> on atapci0 [...] ad4: DMA limited to UDMA33, device found non-ATA66 cable ad4: 238418MB <WDC WD2500JS-75NCB3 10.02E04> at ata2-master UDMA33 As far as I know, the message doesn't make any sense, since it's a SATA drive. I don't know whether it has any actual effect or is simply a bogus warning. The drive doesn't seem slow to me so far. John
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