rebooting and crashes on dell server

[robert]

On Fri, 2006-03-03 at 11:38 +0000, Alex Zbyslaw wrote:
> Ted Mittelstaedt wrote:
> 
> >You need to load an OS supported by Dell - ie: Windows -
> >on this system first and run some stress-testers on it and
> >see if it locks up.   If it does not then try Linux and if that
> >works, you either use Linux or call Dell and tell them to make it
> >work with FreeBSD or your going to return the server to Dell.
> >You have 30 days from date of purchase to do this per UCC.
> >  
> >
> >>
> >>Tired of messing with it, I bought a new dell
> >>poweredge 2650, with scsi raid, a couple gigs of ram,
> >>duals, and just a new system, configured it, copied
> >>user data over and switched to it.  Sure enough still
> >>the worst stability I've ever seen.  It has dual power
> >>supplies, each in a different UPS. I don't believe
> >>power is the problem or I'd see similar problems on
> >>the other server or router I have plugged in there.  I
> >>even upgraded to 6.0-Release-p1 but no luck.  
> >>    
> >>
> Well, we run some 2850's which may or may not be similar and they run 
> fine.  Random reboots sounds like hardware.  Our Dell's came with 
> bootable diagnostics on the first disk slice (F1 at boot time) so if you 
> didn't scrub them I would suggest booting them.  If you did scrub them 
> then I would call Dell, but as Ted says, they may bitch and moan that 
> they don't support FreeBSD.
> 
> --Alex

For what it's worth, I have a PowerEdge 1650 - twin cpu's 1 Gbyte
redundant psu's twin 36GByte Scsi disks (software raid) etc which is
steady as a rock running 6.0 P4. The only problem is the fan noise!

Rob