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Date:      Wed, 9 Jan 2008 11:24:13 -0500 (EST)
From:      "Brian A. Seklecki" <lavalamp@spiritual-machines.org>
To:        Olivier Nicole <on@cs.ait.ac.th>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: dell Power Edge 2950
Message-ID:  <20080109112208.G66279@arbitor.digitalfreaks.org>
In-Reply-To: <200712270548.lBR5m0HT004974@banyan.cs.ait.ac.th>
References:  <200712270548.lBR5m0HT004974@banyan.cs.ait.ac.th>

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On Thu, 27 Dec 2007, Olivier Nicole wrote:

> Hello,
>
> This is just to confirm that Dell Power Edge 2950, with Quad Core Xeon
> E5420 is OK with FreeBSD 6.2/6.3.

Make sure that you get a Revision 2 (R2).  We had some serious stability 
issues with two R1s.  Yay for beta testing $6k servers.

You'll want to read the entire thread about mfi(4) and bce(4) instability 
on RELENG_6.  Someone just reported a geometry size reporting error with 
the new PERC/6 that Dell is pushing, so stick with PERC/5.

My personal recommendation is to use em(4) and disable onboard Broadcom 
and forget that Dell ever started shipping Broadcom.

~BAS




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