4.9-R on IBM xSeries 305 or Dell PowerEdge 650?

[Doug White]

On Wed, 28 Jan 2004, Sergey A. Osokin wrote:

> On Wed, Jan 28, 2004 at 05:27:58PM +0100, Marko Zec wrote:
> >
> > I'm shopping for a cheap uniprocessor rackmount server which will be
> > running exclusively 4.9-RELEASE. It must have a fast processor / memory
> > bus, and possibly an integrated dual gigabit copper NIC attached to
> > PCI-X bus (plain PCI is not an option). SCSI / RAID stuff is not
> > necessary - IDE will do fine.
> >
> > It seems that both IBM xSeries 305 and Dell PowerEdge 650 might fit...
> > Does anyone have experiences with running FreeBSD on those machines?
> > Any other alternatives worth considering?
>
> I use IBM xSeries 330, powered by 5.1-R and works very well.

I have an x335 here, which apart from the keyboard not working due to ACPI
wierdness, functions properly otherwise.  Works as expected with ACPI
disabled.

The mouse doesn't work with SuSE 9, so its not a problem limited to
FreeBSD. :)

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