Re: 6.1 with PAE on a recent server (HP DL380 G5 or Dell PE 1950) ? - usb?

2007-04-13 Thread Olivier Mueller
Hi again, On Mon, 2006-11-13 at 19:30 +0100, Olivier Mueller wrote: I will soon get some new servers with more than 4 GB of RAM, and I am wondering if they will work fine even with the PAE option activated: are all the required drivers (RAID mfid, bce on the Dell, ciss0 on the HP) 100%

Re: 6.1 with PAE on a recent server (HP DL380 G5 or Dell PE 1950) ? - usb?

2007-04-13 Thread Ivan Voras
Olivier Mueller wrote: nodeviceuhci nodeviceohci nodeviceehci nodeviceusb nodeviceugen nodeviceuhid nodeviceukbd - no usb support... So how am I supposed to access the console then? (there is no serial port either). Can I remove these

Re: 6.1 with PAE on a recent server (HP DL380 G5 or Dell PE 1950) ?

2006-11-14 Thread Olivier Mueller
Bonjour, On Tue, 2006-11-14 at 12:59 +0100, Oliver Fromme wrote: But of course if you (and Mike Jakubik) strongly suggest it would be a good idea, why not, I will give a try asap :-) Any special thing I should take care of when switching from the i686 kernel to the amd64 one? The

Re: 6.1 with PAE on a recent server (HP DL380 G5 or Dell PE 1950) ?

2006-11-14 Thread Oliver Fromme
Olivier Mueller wrote: Ruslan Ermilov wrote: And you absolutely have no option of running FreeBSD/amd64 on them? What a PITA! :-) Ehm well, I must admit I never tried that, for a simple (and silly?) reason: freebsd installation selects the i386 SMP kernel by default... But of

Re: 6.1 with PAE on a recent server (HP DL380 G5 or Dell PE 1950) ?

2006-11-14 Thread Oliver Fromme
Olivier Mueller wrote: Oliver Fromme wrote: The easiest way is to re-install with an /amd64 ISO. On new servers, sure. But on already active (and in production) systems? I guess a make buildkernel is not enought, and that at least a make buildworld would be necessary? Or even

Re: 6.1 with PAE on a recent server (HP DL380 G5 or Dell PE 1950) ?

2006-11-14 Thread Ivan Voras
Ruslan Ermilov wrote: On Mon, Nov 13, 2006 at 10:57:50PM +0100, Olivier Mueller wrote: Will the systems be quicker this way, or will it just help with this 4GB memory limit? Quicker - probably not. Will certainly help with the 4G limit. On a low level sort of way amd64 actually might be

Re: 6.1 with PAE on a recent server (HP DL380 G5 or Dell PE 1950) ?

2006-11-14 Thread Marc G. Fournier
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 - --On Tuesday, November 14, 2006 01:39:04 +0300 Ruslan Ermilov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Nov 13, 2006 at 10:57:50PM +0100, Olivier Mueller wrote: On Mon, 2006-11-13 at 22:14 +0300, Ruslan Ermilov wrote: Btw, when will we see these

6.1 with PAE on a recent server (HP DL380 G5 or Dell PE 1950) ?

2006-11-13 Thread Olivier Mueller
Hello, I will soon get some new servers with more than 4 GB of RAM, and I am wondering if they will work fine even with the PAE option activated: are all the required drivers (RAID mfid, bce on the Dell, ciss0 on the HP) 100% compatible, or should I expect trouble? If you have a working

Re: 6.1 with PAE on a recent server (HP DL380 G5 or Dell PE 1950) ?

2006-11-13 Thread Mike Jakubik
Olivier Mueller wrote: Hello, I will soon get some new servers with more than 4 GB of RAM, and I am wondering if they will work fine even with the PAE option activated: are all the required drivers (RAID mfid, bce on the Dell, ciss0 on the HP) 100% compatible, or should I expect trouble?

Re: 6.1 with PAE on a recent server (HP DL380 G5 or Dell PE 1950) ?

2006-11-13 Thread Ruslan Ermilov
On Mon, Nov 13, 2006 at 07:30:09PM +0100, Olivier Mueller wrote: Hello, I will soon get some new servers with more than 4 GB of RAM, and I am wondering if they will work fine even with the PAE option activated: are all the required drivers (RAID mfid, bce on the Dell, ciss0 on the HP) 100%

Re: 6.1 with PAE on a recent server (HP DL380 G5 or Dell PE 1950) ?

2006-11-13 Thread Olivier Mueller
On Mon, 2006-11-13 at 22:14 +0300, Ruslan Ermilov wrote: Drivers that are either known to NOT work with PAE or were not tested with PAE are excluded by the PAE config file, you can check there. So it looks like all of them should work fine with PAE. merci! Btw, when will we see these new

Re: 6.1 with PAE on a recent server (HP DL380 G5 or Dell PE 1950) ?

2006-11-13 Thread Ruslan Ermilov
On Mon, Nov 13, 2006 at 10:57:50PM +0100, Olivier Mueller wrote: On Mon, 2006-11-13 at 22:14 +0300, Ruslan Ermilov wrote: Btw, when will we see these new servers listed under: http://www.freebsd.org/platforms/amd64/motherboards.html ? And you absolutely have no option of running

Re: 6.1 with PAE on a recent server (HP DL380 G5 or Dell PE 1950) ?

2006-11-13 Thread Michael Vince
Olivier Mueller wrote: Hello, I will soon get some new servers with more than 4 GB of RAM, and I am wondering if they will work fine even with the PAE option activated: are all the required drivers (RAID mfid, bce on the Dell, ciss0 on the HP) 100% compatible, or should I expect trouble? If

Re: 6.1 with PAE on a recent server (HP DL380 G5 or Dell PE 1950) ?

2006-11-13 Thread Josef Grosch
On Mon, Nov 13, 2006 at 01:57:50PM -0500, Mike Jakubik wrote: Olivier Mueller wrote: Hello, I will soon get some new servers with more than 4 GB of RAM, and I am wondering if they will work fine even with the PAE option activated: are all the required drivers (RAID mfid, bce on the Dell,