G'day Luiz As I have a IBM x3550 m4 with a Xeon E5-2609 here, the R420 looks quite similar to my box here, maybe you get similar results.
With 2.0.1 the x3550 M4 panicked at early boot stage during SMP initialization, but 2.1 booted fine. Try to boot a pfSense 2.1 amd64 snapshot from snapshots.pfsense.org to see how far you can get. If you have bought a R420 with Intel NICs, it is likely to have I350's, I'm sure they'll be recognized (the X3550 m4 has 4x I350). But you'll have to tune some parameters as mentioned here - especially with a high core count.* (this seems to be known overall with FreeBSD) For storage, I guess you'll have a PERC in this box? If so (and this is why I answer ... ;-) ) l'm actually interested in your possible feedback: Only recently pfSense recently added patches that backport the 'mfi' module and 'mfiutil' backport from FreeBSD 8-STABLE. The drivers still have some known caveats, but expand the range of supported MegaRAID-based RAID controllers significantly. (a plain FreeBSD 8.3 or 9.0 will not recognize most modern MegaRAID SAS) If your box boots up, I'd be interested in some of the following output from the shell: pciconfig -lvb | grep mfi mfiutil show adapters mfiutil show volumes Best regards Mathieu P.S. If you want your drives to be seen by pfSense, you need to create them before boot in the MegaRAID/PERC BIOS or using mfiutil. * http://doc.pfsense.org/index.php/Tuning_and_Troubleshooting_Network_Cards _______________________________________________ List mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pfsense.org/mailman/listinfo/list
