Re: SuperMicro 2U servers?
On Mon, Jan 15, 2007 at 08:28:02AM +0100, Philippe Lang wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Jan 11, 2007 at 08:43:06AM +0100, Philippe Lang wrote: Hi, Is anyone using FreeBSD 6.X in production on SuperMicro 2U servers? http://www.supermicro.com/products/system/2U/ Thanks for the info, Philippe Lang Yep, 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. Josef Hi Josef, thanks for your answer. Are you using this motherboard? http://www.supermicro.com/products/motherboard/Xeon1333/5000P/X7DBE.cfm I have just check on FreeBSD 6.2R hardware compatibility list, and they don't mention the network controller. It's an - Intel(r) (ESB2/Gilgal) 82563EB Dual-Port Gigabit Ethernet Controller Hardware compatibility list says: - 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 Does the documentation simply need to be updated maybe? Bye Philippe I just looked at the specs, the servers we are currently ordering are Supermicros with the X6DHE-G2 motherboard. 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) Josef -- Josef Grosch | Another day closer to a | FreeBSD 6.2 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Micro$oft free world | Berkeley, Ca. pgpg8fgUYozVR.pgp Description: PGP signature
RE: SuperMicro 2U servers?
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Jan 11, 2007 at 08:43:06AM +0100, Philippe Lang wrote: Hi, Is anyone using FreeBSD 6.X in production on SuperMicro 2U servers? http://www.supermicro.com/products/system/2U/ Thanks for the info, Philippe Lang Yep, 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. Josef Hi Josef, thanks for your answer. Are you using this motherboard? http://www.supermicro.com/products/motherboard/Xeon1333/5000P/X7DBE.cfm I have just check on FreeBSD 6.2R hardware compatibility list, and they don't mention the network controller. It's an - Intel(r) (ESB2/Gilgal) 82563EB Dual-Port Gigabit Ethernet Controller Hardware compatibility list says: - 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 Does the documentation simply need to be updated maybe? Bye Philippe ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: SuperMicro 2U servers?
On Thu, Jan 11, 2007 at 08:43:06AM +0100, Philippe Lang wrote: Hi, Is anyone using FreeBSD 6.X in production on SuperMicro 2U servers? http://www.supermicro.com/products/system/2U/ Thanks for the info, Philippe Lang Yep, 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. Josef -- Josef Grosch | Another day closer to a | FreeBSD 6.1 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Micro$oft free world | Berkeley, Ca. pgpqkrlXoOEtR.pgp Description: PGP signature
RE: SuperMicro 2U servers?
I wrote: Hi, Is anyone using FreeBSD 6.X in production on SuperMicro 2U servers? http://www.supermicro.com/products/system/2U/ More specifically: The motherboard of the server I'm interested in is: http://www.supermicro.com/products/motherboard/Xeon1333/5000P/X7DBE.cfm In the OS compatibility list, Super Micro does not mention anything regarding FreeBSD 6.0... http://www.supermicro.com/support/resources/OS/5000PCompatibility.cfm Does that mean untested, or uncompatible? Bye Philppe ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
