On Tue, 4 Jun 2002, Kurt Seel wrote:
> I have used several Dell uniprocessors with FreeBSD.
> Overall, I like them. I also like Dell's service and
> support (relatively speaking). Is anyone using Dell
> multi-proccessor boxes? Specifically we are considering
> a poweredge 4600 like :
> http://www.dell.com/us/en/bsd/products/model_pedge_1_pedge_4600.htm
<advice mode="potentially-bogus">
About two years ago I worked for someone who had _many_ of Dells running
FreeBSD. None of them were specifically your model, but we definately had
SMP boxes going just fine (I think the models were mainly in the 2000,
4000 and 6000 series).
> Does anyone know if:
> * the onboard NIC works / is worth a damn?
Yeah, ours were Intel EtherExpresses IIRC...
> * the onboard SCSI works / is worth a damn
Yes, but we had problems with the Dell RAID controllers. These have now
been rectified I believe.
> * SMP is flawless on this box?
Worked for us.
</advice>
Cheers,
Mikal
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Michael Still (mikal@stillhq.com) UMT+10hrs
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