New Dell PowerEdge 2900

[Simon L. Nielsen]

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:

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-- 
Simon L. Nielsen