Re: FreeBSD on Intel Server Board SE7501WV2
On Fri, 12 Sep 2003, Aaron Wohl wrote: > We have two systems with this motherboard. Id recommend looking for a > different motherboard. If you find one in the same class let me know > what you find Im looking too for our next set of servers. Aaron, I just ordered a supermicro X5DP8 board (and chassis, the 6023P-8R server combo) that I'll put two 2.4 Xeons and 512 megs of ram into. It uses the E7501 chipset, so I'd say it's comperable to the SE7501WV2. Check with me in a month and I'll tell you how it does. :) > On Thu, 11 Sep 2003 13:36:35 -0400 (EDT), "Yaoping Ruan" > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > > > We plan to install FreeBSD on an Intel Server Board SE7501WV2 with 1 XEON > > 2.4GHz CPU, 4GB PC2100 DDR memory, and a Seagate 120GB ATA 7200RPM Of the original poster, though, I have to ask: Why use a Xeon server with only 1 processor? Is the larger cache that important in your application? ...david --- david raistrick [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.expita.com/nomime.html ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: FreeBSD on Intel Server Board SE7501WV2
we have some 50 of these, all in intel boxes, SR-something. 80% are runing Mosix/Linux, the rest Freebsd 4.8 and 5.1 so far had few hardware problems, but they were all solved. the bios is not realy for the weak-hearted but i've seen worse. btw, i just installed 2 120GB disks and im getting around 60MGB/s for writing. the onboard nics are RJ45, but maybe there is an option for fiber. danny PS: the console redirect is different between BIOS vers. > Hello, > > We plan to install FreeBSD on an Intel Server Board SE7501WV2 with 1 XEON > 2.4GHz CPU, 4GB PC2100 DDR memory, and a Seagate 120GB ATA 7200RPM > harddisk, and use the server box for high demand SpecWeb99 tests. Does > anyone have any experience on this Server Board, and see any compatibility > problem here? The reason I am asking is that we had some kernel > compatibility issues on other Intel Board. > > An other question about this box is the two on-board Gigabit Network > Controller. Do they work fine on FreeBSD? May I use fiber Giganet NCI like > Netgear GA621 on it? > > Any thoughts/information are welcome. > > Thanks a lot > > - Yaoping Ruan > * > Computer Science Dept. > Princeton University > * > ___ > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" > ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: FreeBSD on Intel Server Board SE7501WV2
Zitat von Aaron Wohl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > We have two systems with this motherboard. Id recommend looking for a > different motherboard. If you find one in the same class let me know > what you find Im looking too for our next set of servers. There are several ones i think : With GB-NIC: ASUS PP-DLW, amibios 8.00.08, seems to eat PC2100 RAM nonECC Intel SE7505VB2, ATI RAGE, SATA, Phoenix server Bios MSI E7505 Master LS2 (msi9121), LSI53c1030 U320 SCSI, Award WKS 6.00 MSI 7505 Master2-F (msi9141), Award WKS 6.00, seems to eat PC2100 RAM nonECC Supermicro Super X5DAL-G,Phonix Bios 4.06, seems to eat PC2100 RAM nonECC Tyan Thunder i7505, firewire, Phoenix Bios 4.06, seems to eat PC2100 RAM nonECC 100 MB NIC: Tyan Tiger i7505, Phoenix Bios 4.06, seems to eat PC2100 RAM nonECC I have no experience though, so any experience infos welcome ! cheers Kai ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: FreeBSD on Intel Server Board SE7501WV2
We have two systems with this motherboard. Id recommend looking for a different motherboard. If you find one in the same class let me know what you find Im looking too for our next set of servers. -If you touch anything the bios resets to the default boot order. Its impossible to keep it from renabling PXE boot on both ethernet cards on a regular basis. If one of your interfaces is on a public net anyone nearby subnet wise can take over your machine with a boot server. For years I popped the boot roms out of intel ethernet cards. But now they are soldered in so you can't make them safe. I hope your behind a router if your getting this motherboard. -If you boot the system without a keyboard attached then latter attach one the keyboard doesnt work until next boot -IPMI bios redirect doesnt work for us (lets you fiddle with the bios settings via IPMI) -Compatability issues with AMI g2 card remote console. AMI thought it was compatability problems with the bios -Lockups on reboot -Reset button doesnt work sometimes -IPMI reset doesnt work sometimes (IPMI power off then on usualy works ok) -If using serial bios redirection reset/reboot doesnt fix the baudrate to what the bios settings are -Intel IPMI client doesnt work over an IPSEC tunnel -Intel has a list of certified boards to use in this server. If there is a problem they will only help fix it if you use only these cards -USB cdroms show up as a bootable device but cant be booted. We tried a bunch from compusa and it wont boot off of USB -The 2U chassis we have it in only really has 3 accessible slots for PCI if the cards have connectors. It uses risers where each riser has its own PCI buss segment. We have an adaptec raid controller on one segment. That leaves two PCI slots, one of which the machines wont power up if we have a card in that 2nd slot. Make sure if you get one of these that it comes with all the cards you ever want to put in it and the cards working. Hyperthreading works ok The dual gigabit nics work ok. The ping timeing is a bit wierd (slow on gigabit) dont know why yet, but transfer rate seemed ok. It shows up as em0 and em1. You just need "device em" in your kernel config for it to work right. I havent tried fiber yet. On Thu, 11 Sep 2003 13:36:35 -0400 (EDT), "Yaoping Ruan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > Hello, > > We plan to install FreeBSD on an Intel Server Board SE7501WV2 with 1 XEON > 2.4GHz CPU, 4GB PC2100 DDR memory, and a Seagate 120GB ATA 7200RPM > harddisk, and use the server box for high demand SpecWeb99 tests. Does > anyone have any experience on this Server Board, and see any > compatibility > problem here? The reason I am asking is that we had some kernel > compatibility issues on other Intel Board. > > An other question about this box is the two on-board Gigabit Network > Controller. Do they work fine on FreeBSD? May I use fiber Giganet NCI > like > Netgear GA621 on it? > > Any thoughts/information are welcome. > > Thanks a lot > > - Yaoping Ruan > * > Computer Science Dept. > Princeton University > * > ___ > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: FreeBSD on Intel Server Board SE7501WV2
Hi, Personally, Linksys and netgear are pure grade 1 childrens toys. Or pure adulterated CRAP. If you want performance use Intel Pro/1000 Server NICs If you are going to use Fibre, check the hardware list. We use QLogic. Mind you we build the Cadillac of PC Servers :) Regards, Lanny Richard you have SCSI the other person seems to have ATA. Richard Sharpe in the last message apparantly wrote: > On Thu, 11 Sep 2003, Yaoping Ruan wrote: > >> Hello, >> >> We plan to install FreeBSD on an Intel Server Board SE7501WV2 with 1 >> XEON >> 2.4GHz CPU, 4GB PC2100 DDR memory, and a Seagate 120GB ATA 7200RPM >> harddisk, and use the server box for high demand SpecWeb99 tests. Does >> anyone have any experience on this Server Board, and see any >> compatibility >> problem here? The reason I am asking is that we had some kernel >> compatibility issues on other Intel Board. > > Is that the dual-processor-capable borad? If so, I have one of those at > home, and it works with FreeBSD 4.7 or so. It certainly has the 7501 > chipset in it and 2x1.8GHz Xeons. > >> An other question about this box is the two on-board Gigabit Network >> Controller. Do they work fine on FreeBSD? May I use fiber Giganet NCI >> like >> Netgear GA621 on it? > > They worked for me. I dunno about the fibre stuff. > > Regards > - > Richard Sharpe, rsharpe[at]ns.aus.com, rsharpe[at]samba.org, > sharpe[at]ethereal.com, http://www.richardsharpe.com > > ___ > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" > =+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+= Lanny Baron Proud to be 100% FreeBSD http://www.FreeBSDsystems.COM Toll Free: 1.877.963.1900 =+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+= ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: FreeBSD on Intel Server Board SE7501WV2
On Thu, 11 Sep 2003, Yaoping Ruan wrote: > Hello, > > We plan to install FreeBSD on an Intel Server Board SE7501WV2 with 1 XEON > 2.4GHz CPU, 4GB PC2100 DDR memory, and a Seagate 120GB ATA 7200RPM > harddisk, and use the server box for high demand SpecWeb99 tests. Does > anyone have any experience on this Server Board, and see any compatibility > problem here? The reason I am asking is that we had some kernel > compatibility issues on other Intel Board. Is that the dual-processor-capable borad? If so, I have one of those at home, and it works with FreeBSD 4.7 or so. It certainly has the 7501 chipset in it and 2x1.8GHz Xeons. > An other question about this box is the two on-board Gigabit Network > Controller. Do they work fine on FreeBSD? May I use fiber Giganet NCI like > Netgear GA621 on it? They worked for me. I dunno about the fibre stuff. Regards - Richard Sharpe, rsharpe[at]ns.aus.com, rsharpe[at]samba.org, sharpe[at]ethereal.com, http://www.richardsharpe.com ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
FreeBSD on Intel Server Board SE7501WV2
Hello, We plan to install FreeBSD on an Intel Server Board SE7501WV2 with 1 XEON 2.4GHz CPU, 4GB PC2100 DDR memory, and a Seagate 120GB ATA 7200RPM harddisk, and use the server box for high demand SpecWeb99 tests. Does anyone have any experience on this Server Board, and see any compatibility problem here? The reason I am asking is that we had some kernel compatibility issues on other Intel Board. An other question about this box is the two on-board Gigabit Network Controller. Do they work fine on FreeBSD? May I use fiber Giganet NCI like Netgear GA621 on it? Any thoughts/information are welcome. Thanks a lot - Yaoping Ruan * Computer Science Dept. Princeton University * ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
