how about Dell PowerEdge 750 ?

[David E. Meier]

Hi Alessandro,

we are running 5.2.1 on a Dell 750 with SCSI RAID 1. So far no problems,
installation showed no difficulties except for the keyboard: After the
boot loader prompt it was "lost". Workaround:

Select option: 6. Escape to loader prompt
then enter: set hint.atkbd.0.flags="0x2"
and boot: boot

To make this persistent you must set this value in /boot/device.hints
later on. Besides this minor issue, everything went smooth for us. I guess
4.9 will work on it as well, it does for Dell's 1750.

Dave

>
> Hello,
>
> we're evaluating some new servers, but before buying I'ld like to know
> if someone else have experience (or hints or any other comments :) )
> about using FreeBSD 4.9 (or 4.10 when will be ready) on a Dell
> PowerEdge 750 with SCSI hard drives.
>
> Does the Dell PERC4/SC (or DC) RAID controller is supported ? on the
> handbook's i386 hardware list I've not found any PERC4 controller...
> it means I'm lost ? ;)
>
> What about the "Intel 7210 server chipset" ?
>
>
> Generally speaking, any suggestion about a low-cost Dell
> rack-mountable FreeBSD-compatibile server ? :-)
>
> Many thanks in advance !
>
>
>
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>
> Alessandro de Manzano
>
> System & Network Administrator
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