Quoting "Simon L. Nielsen" <simon_at_FreeBSD.org>: > On 2006.07.23 18:04:22 +0200, Martin Nilsson wrote: >> eculp_at_bafirst.com wrote: >> >Does anyone know of any outstanding issues with the Dell PowerEdge 2900 >> >that comes with the >> > >> >PERC 5/i disk controller >> >Dual Embedded Broadcom® NetXtreme II 5708 Gigabit Ethernet NIC's >> >300GB, SAS, 3.5-inch, 10K RPM Hard Drive >> >Memory 4GB 533MHz (4x1GB) >> >> Why don't you buy a system from a vendor who knows FreeBSD and can tell >> you what parts will work and how well supported they are? >> >> There is a long list at: http://www.freebsd.org/commercial/hardware.html >> >> Dell is for people who don't care what's inside the box and they tend to >> run Windows! > > That's not really true, and Dell does care (at least a bit) about > non-Windows customers. E.g. see > http://cvsweb.freebsd.org/src/sys/dev/mfi/mfi.c (the RAID > driver for PERC 5/i: > > Sponsored by: Dell, Ironport Simon, Thanks for the answer. It is already in the tree then but it isn't in the handbook yet afaik and since it seems to have been mfc'ed so it should be stable. I can relax a bit. Thanks, ed > > -- > Simon L. Nielsen >Received on Mon Jul 24 2006 - 12:30:07 UTC
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