Re: support for Sun Fire

2007-07-19 Thread Toni Mueller
Hi, On Mon, 16.07.2007 at 14:25:05 -0400, Daniel Ouellet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Toni Mueller wrote: > >On Tue, 29.05.2007 at 14:13:06 +0100, mark reardon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>I just got a x2100 M2 from Sun yesterday on a 60 day trial and am having > >did you get it to run OpenBSD p

Re: support for Sun Fire

2007-07-16 Thread bofh
On 7/16/07, Daniel Ouellet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: The HP-145 M1 and IBM e326, witch both works well, with the IBM giving me some minor issues every few months, but looks like it cleared up over time with various upgrades. I'm not sure if I would recommend the DL-145s. I bought about 2 doze

Re: support for Sun Fire

2007-07-16 Thread Daniel Ouellet
Dag Richards wrote: I would recommend you take a look at the HP DL360, one U hardware raid and have nice little management interface you can ssh to which allows pretty complete console access, go into bios, watch boot messages, power set the system. The Sun 4100 is a pretty good one as well. I

Re: support for Sun Fire

2007-07-16 Thread Dag Richards
Daniel Ouellet wrote: Toni Mueller wrote: Hi Mark, On Tue, 29.05.2007 at 14:13:06 +0100, mark reardon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I just got a x2100 M2 from Sun yesterday on a 60 day trial and am having trouble setting the MTU on one of the bge NICs. Just some initial findings. Not a big pro

Re: support for Sun Fire

2007-07-16 Thread Daniel Ouellet
Toni Mueller wrote: Hi Mark, On Tue, 29.05.2007 at 14:13:06 +0100, mark reardon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I just got a x2100 M2 from Sun yesterday on a 60 day trial and am having trouble setting the MTU on one of the bge NICs. Just some initial findings. Not a big problem for me really. did

Re: support for Sun Fire

2007-07-16 Thread mark reardon
Yep - x2100 M2. OpenBSD 4.1. It works brilliantly compared to the Dell it replaced which was getting to 55+% IO bound. On 16/07/07, Toni Mueller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi Mark, > > On Tue, 29.05.2007 at 14:13:06 +0100, mark reardon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > I just got a x2100 M2 fr

Re: support for Sun Fire

2007-07-16 Thread Toni Mueller
Hi Mark, On Tue, 29.05.2007 at 14:13:06 +0100, mark reardon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I just got a x2100 M2 from Sun yesterday on a 60 day trial and am having > trouble setting the MTU on one of the bge NICs. Just some initial findings. > Not a big problem for me really. did you get it to run

Re: support for Sun Fire

2007-06-04 Thread Sam Vaughan
On 03/06/2007, at 7:33 PM, Stuart Henderson wrote: On 2007/06/03 14:09, Sam Vaughan wrote: if anyone has a working PXE bios-flash setup for these and wouldn't mind sharing how, please drop me a line, when I try the system hangs after memdisk loads the bios-flash image. I'd be interested to

Re: support for Sun Fire

2007-06-03 Thread Stuart Henderson
On 2007/06/03 14:09, Sam Vaughan wrote: > >> if anyone has a working PXE bios-flash setup for these and wouldn't >> mind sharing how, please drop me a line, when I try the system hangs >> after memdisk loads the bios-flash image. > > I'd be interested to know about this too. Since my x4100s have n

Re: support for Sun Fire

2007-06-02 Thread Sam Vaughan
On 29/05/2007, at 10:41 PM, Stuart Henderson wrote: if you have a recent bios that lets you set the low-temp fan duty cycle to 0% to quieten things down while you do the initial install, make sure the 'power off if cpu fan fails' option is turned off or you'll have an aggravating 'enter the bios

Re: support for Sun Fire

2007-05-29 Thread Jeff Quast
On 5/29/07, Stuart Henderson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: an amd64 box boot without it. and hooray: the bios *defaults* to using serial console, so you don't lose access if the CMOS battery dies. other vendors would do well to copy that idea. here, here.

Re: support for Sun Fire

2007-05-29 Thread mark reardon
my problem was only setting the mtu > 9000 btw. as I said not a biggie ;-) On 29/05/07, mark reardon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I just got a x2100 M2 from Sun yesterday on a 60 day trial and am having > trouble setting the MTU on one of the bge NICs. Just some initial findings. > Not a big pro

Re: support for Sun Fire

2007-05-29 Thread mark reardon
I just got a x2100 M2 from Sun yesterday on a 60 day trial and am having trouble setting the MTU on one of the bge NICs. Just some initial findings. Not a big problem for me really. On 29/05/07, mufurcz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Greetings, > > Are the Sun Fire X2100 (1 x AMD Opteron, Model

Re: support for Sun Fire

2007-05-29 Thread Stuart Henderson
On 2007/05/29 22:10, mufurcz wrote: > Are the Sun Fire X2100 (1 x AMD Opteron, Model 175, dual core 2.26 MHz CPU) > servers fully supported? I am interested in booth - good and bad > experiences > with this boxes. If you don't want to generate noise on this group, please > e-mail to me personal

support for Sun Fire

2007-05-29 Thread mufurcz
Greetings, Are the Sun Fire X2100 (1 x AMD Opteron, Model 175, dual core 2.26 MHz CPU) servers fully supported? I am interested in booth - good and bad experiences with this boxes. If you don't want to generate noise on this group, please e-mail to me personally. Thanks, mufurcz