On Tue, Jan 11, 2000 at 13:31:23 -0600, Jonathan Lemon wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 11, 2000 at 01:22:49PM -0600, Jonathan Lemon wrote:
> >
> > We're thinking of purchasing some Dell PowerEdge 2400 servers. I'm a
> > bit nervous because the 2400 uses a non-Intel server chipset made by a
> > company called RCC Reliance.
> >
> > The chipset is called the "LE-64 ver 3.0". and I cannot seem to find
> > any info about it. The most I've been able to turn up is somebody
> > else looking for info. I was wondering if anybody was currently using
> > a PowerEdge 2400 (or any other server products with this PCI chipset)
> > with FreeBSD
> >
> > So -- does FreeBSD work with RCC chipsets? Is the chipset robust &
> > reliable? We've been badly burned a few times by buggy DEC PCI
> > chipsets & we're hoping to not repeat the experience with an x86 ;-)
>
> It doesn't currently seem to boot with the RCC chipset. I get
> the following:
>
> pci unknown vendor = 0x9005, dev = 0x00cf
That's an Adaptec vendor ID. (They've got 0x9004 and 0x9005.) I'm not
sure what device that is, however. Justin might know. Are you sure
that's the RCC chipset?
> This is with a RCC-186566-PO3. As for stability, I have another box
> running Linux with an RCC-xxxx-PO2 that seems fairly stable.
>
> The RCC chips are supposed to allow better memory bandwidth @ 133Mhz.
Anyone have a URL for RCC?
Ken
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