Re: [Opinions Wanted] Dell PowerEdge 2950 Servers ...

2007-01-26 Thread Bill Moran
In response to "Marc G. Fournier" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: [snip] > > *) There's an issue where the systems will hang on reboot about 50% of the > >time. I tried to track this down but found that if I added any debugging > >code, the problem disappeared :( It's not a big deal for three reason

Re: [Opinions Wanted] Dell PowerEdge 2950 Servers ...

2007-01-26 Thread Paul Schmehl
--On Friday, January 26, 2007 09:35:06 -0600 Dan Nelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: In the last episode (Jan 26), chris neill said: On Fri, Jan 26, 2007 at 09:41:19AM -0500, David Robillard wrote: > IMHO, the problem with Dell is not their hardware, but their > support (or lack of it). Ditto -

Re: [Opinions Wanted] Dell PowerEdge 2950 Servers ...

2007-01-26 Thread Marc G. Fournier
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 - --On Friday, January 26, 2007 08:59:43 -0500 Bill Moran <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > We have 4 1950s and 3 2950s in use around here. Only one is actually in > production so far, the rest are still being configured, etc. > > We're mostly happy wi

Re: [Opinions Wanted] Dell PowerEdge 2950 Servers ...

2007-01-26 Thread Bill Moran
In response to Jerry McAllister <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Fri, Jan 26, 2007 at 08:59:43AM -0500, Bill Moran wrote: > > > In response to "Marc G. Fournier" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > > ... > > > > We have 4 1950s and 3 2950s in use around here. Only one is actually in > > production so far, t

Re: [Opinions Wanted] Dell PowerEdge 2950 Servers ...

2007-01-26 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Fri, Jan 26, 2007 at 08:59:43AM -0500, Bill Moran wrote: > In response to "Marc G. Fournier" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > ... > > We have 4 1950s and 3 2950s in use around here. Only one is actually in > production so far, the rest are still being configured, etc. > > We're mostly happy with

Re: [Opinions Wanted] Dell PowerEdge 2950 Servers ...

2007-01-26 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Thu, Jan 25, 2007 at 11:46:02PM -0400, Marc G. Fournier wrote: > Have a friend that swears by them, but ... he's in the Linux camp, so tends > to > have a quasi-inside track ... > > What are ppls opinions on them as far as FreeBSD is concerned? > > Also, interested in what sort of specs ppl

Re: [Opinions Wanted] Dell PowerEdge 2950 Servers ...

2007-01-26 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Jan 26), chris neill said: > On Fri, Jan 26, 2007 at 09:41:19AM -0500, David Robillard wrote: > > IMHO, the problem with Dell is not their hardware, but their > > support (or lack of it). > > Ditto -- We had a (duh) PERC 3/di go south on a PE2550 and getting > Dell to fix it w

Re: [Opinions Wanted] Dell PowerEdge 2950 Servers ...

2007-01-26 Thread chris neill
On Fri, Jan 26, 2007 at 09:41:19AM -0500, David Robillard wrote: > My personal experience with Dell is that it's ok until you hit a > problem. Then it's hell. So bad, in fact, that we don't purchase them > anymore and have gone with IBM and HP systems for our FreeBSD, RedHat > and Windows machines.

Re: [Opinions Wanted] Dell PowerEdge 2950 Servers ...

2007-01-26 Thread David Robillard
Have a friend that swears by them, but ... he's in the Linux camp, so tends to have a quasi-inside track ... What are ppls opinions on them as far as FreeBSD is concerned? Also, interested in what sort of specs ppl are running ... I'm interested in going with an 8xSAS drive system, dual-dual-cor

Re: [Opinions Wanted] Dell PowerEdge 2950 Servers ...

2007-01-26 Thread Bill Moran
In response to "Marc G. Fournier" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > Have a friend that swears by them, but ... he's in the Linux camp, so tends > to > have a quasi-inside track ... > > What are ppls opinions on them as far as FreeBSD is concerned? > > Also, interested in what sort of specs ppl are runn

Re: [Opinions Wanted] Dell PowerEdge 2950 Servers ...

2007-01-25 Thread Jeff Royle
Marc G. Fournier wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Have a friend that swears by them, but ... he's in the Linux camp, so tends to have a quasi-inside track ... What are ppls opinions on them as far as FreeBSD is concerned? Also, interested in what sort of specs ppl are ru

[Opinions Wanted] Dell PowerEdge 2950 Servers ...

2007-01-25 Thread Marc G. Fournier
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Have a friend that swears by them, but ... he's in the Linux camp, so tends to have a quasi-inside track ... What are ppls opinions on them as far as FreeBSD is concerned? Also, interested in what sort of specs ppl are running ... I'm interested in