Compaq Proliant 1600

[Marco Steinbach]

John Brooks schrieb:
> I seem to have inherited a pair of Compaq Proliant 1600 
> servers and am considering loading freebsd onto them.
> 
> Has anyone worked with Proliants before and specifically
> with installing freebsd on them? Is it worth the bother?

We're running some DL380 G1 Models for various internal, low profile 
purposes.  They're equipped with dual PIII 1GHz CPUs and about 1GB of 
RAM.  We're booting off of the Compaq Integrated RAID Controler, and use 
gmirrored off the shelve SATA drives in the free bays with FreeBSD 6.3.

Allthough I have no knowledge about the models you mention, a good start 
might be to get Compaq Rompaq media in order to bring up the firmware to 
the latest level.

The next step would be to fetch Compaq SmartStart media, and see, what 
options these offer for your machines.

I had one DL380 G1 rebooting randomly on any FreeBSD 6.x I tried, but 
the other ones are just humming along nicely on 6.3 with some jails 
running mostly what might be called a standard FAMP.

I'm running hpasm 7.22 [1] on all of them.

MfG CoCo
[1] http://people.freebsd.org/~jcagle/