On 8/6/06, Mark Kane [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi everyone. Quick hardware question here...
We're looking to move a dedicated server to a new datacenter with new
hardware. The Dual Xeon boards in the new datacenter are the Supermicro
X6DVL-EG-2 with the Intel E7320 chipset. I see the E7320 listed on
the hardware page for 6.1-RELEASE/amd64 but not for i386. Would this
work with i386? I want to run i386 on this machine just to make sure all
third party software we need will still work, since it is an important
production server, and one application we use is binary only for i386.
I also don't see the SATA controller (6300ESB) or the onboard NIC
(82541GI) on either hardware lists. I see similar models for the NIC
on the list, but not the GI. The motherboard spec page does show
different models though, since at the top it says it's the GI, but
down below it says it's the PI on that board. Does neither the SATA or
NIC being listed mean that this board will not work? Is anyone out there
running this board with FreeBSD, and what are your experiences with it?
I don't know much about Intel hardware since I run AMD on all other
machines, and most any hardware I've ever used with FreeBSD has worked,
but I wanted to check on this before ordering the new server because
we're needing to switch fast and get moved out of the old datacenter
by mid-week. The only other hardware option I see from this datacenter
is an Opteron 170, but I'd like to stick with the Dual Xeons as we
currently have now if at all possible.
Thanks very much in advance for any info or suggestions.
-Mark
http://www.supermicro.com/products/motherboard/Xeon800/E7320/X6DVL-EG.cfm
I have a X7DBE that mostly works with FreeBSD 6.x/i386.
http://www.supermicro.com/products/motherboard/Xeon1333/5000P/X7DBE.cfm
The Ethernet controllers (Intel PRO/1000 EB) don't work with FreeBSD
6.1 but this is being fixed on -STABLE as we speak, there is a em(4)
patch waiting for commit... I have not tried to use the 6 port onboard
SATA RAID controller... From experience I just assume it not support
at all. Your motherboard is a generation behind my board so things
should probably work out pretty good for you. here's my dmesg:
Copyright (c) 1992-2006 The FreeBSD Project.
Copyright (c) 1979, 1980, 1983, 1986, 1988, 1989, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994
The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved.
FreeBSD 6.1-STABLE #0: Mon Aug 7 00:13:42 UTC 2006
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/X7DBE
ACPI APIC Table: PTLTD APIC
Timecounter i8254 frequency 1193182 Hz quality 0
CPU: Intel(R) Xeon(TM) CPU 2.66GHz (2666.68-MHz 686-class CPU)
Origin = GenuineIntel Id = 0xf64 Stepping = 4
Features=0xbfebfbffFPU,VME,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,APIC,SEP,MTRR,PGE,MCA,CMOV,PAT,PSE36,CLFLUSH,DTS,ACPI,MMX,FXSR,SSE,SSE2,SS,HTT,TM,PBE
Features2=0xe4bdSSE3,RSVD2,MON,DS_CPL,VMX,EST,CNTX-ID,CX16,b14,b15
AMD Features=0x2000LM
AMD Features2=0x1LAHF
Cores per package: 2
Logical CPUs per core: 2
real memory = 1073086464 (1023 MB)
avail memory = 1036750848 (988 MB)
FreeBSD/SMP: Multiprocessor System Detected: 2 CPUs
cpu0 (BSP): APIC ID: 0
cpu1 (AP): APIC ID: 2
ioapic0 Version 2.0 irqs 0-23 on motherboard
ioapic1 Version 2.0 irqs 24-47 on motherboard
kbd1 at kbdmux0
acpi0: PTLTD RSDT on motherboard
acpi0: Power Button (fixed)
can't fetch resources for \\_SB_.PCI0.LPC0.MBRD - AE_AML_INVALID_RESOURCE_TYPE
Timecounter ACPI-fast frequency 3579545 Hz quality 1000
acpi_timer0: 24-bit timer at 3.579545MHz port 0x1008-0x100b on acpi0
cpu0: ACPI CPU on acpi0
acpi_throttle0: ACPI CPU Throttling on cpu0
cpu1: ACPI CPU on acpi0
acpi_throttle1: ACPI CPU Throttling on cpu1
acpi_throttle1: failed to attach P_CNT
device_attach: acpi_throttle1 attach returned 6
pcib0: ACPI Host-PCI bridge port 0xcf8-0xcff on acpi0
pci0: ACPI PCI bus on pcib0
pcib1: ACPI PCI-PCI bridge at device 2.0 on pci0
pci1: ACPI PCI bus on pcib1
pcib2: ACPI PCI-PCI bridge irq 16 at device 0.0 on pci1
pci2: ACPI PCI bus on pcib2
pcib3: ACPI PCI-PCI bridge irq 16 at device 0.0 on pci2
pci3: ACPI PCI bus on pcib3
pcib4: ACPI PCI-PCI bridge at device 0.0 on pci3
pci4: ACPI PCI bus on pcib4
pcib5: ACPI PCI-PCI bridge at device 0.2 on pci3
pci5: ACPI PCI bus on pcib5
pcib6: ACPI PCI-PCI bridge irq 18 at device 2.0 on pci2
pci6: ACPI PCI bus on pcib6
em0: Intel(R) PRO/1000 Network Connection Version - 6.0.5 port
0x2000-0x201f mem 0xc820-0xc821 irq 18 at device 0.0 on pci6
em0: Ethernet address: 00:30:48:30:99:c8
em0: [FAST]
em1: Intel(R) PRO/1000 Network Connection Version - 6.0.5 port
0x2020-0x203f mem 0xc822-0xc823 irq 19 at device 0.1 on pci6
em1: Ethernet address: 00:30:48:30:99:c9
em1: [FAST]
pcib7: ACPI PCI-PCI bridge at device 0.3 on pci1
pci7: ACPI PCI bus on pcib7
pcib8: ACPI PCI-PCI bridge at device 4.0 on pci0
pci8: ACPI PCI bus on pcib8
pcib9: ACPI PCI-PCI bridge at device 6.0 on pci0
pci9: ACPI PCI bus on pcib9
pcib10: PCI-PCI bridge at device 0.0 on pci9
pci10: PCI
