Re: Dell PowerEdge 1855

2005-05-22 Thread Doug White
On Sun, 22 May 2005, Danny Braniss wrote: > > > Hi Doug, > > > > > > Sorry for taking so long to reply on this, been on 3 weeks leave... > > > > > > On Fri, 8 Apr 2005, Doug White wrote: > > > > > > > On Wed, 6 Apr 2005, Carl Makin wrote: > > > > > > > > The boot sequence will hang if the USB driv

Re: Dell PowerEdge 1855

2005-05-22 Thread Danny Braniss
> > Hi Doug, > > > > Sorry for taking so long to reply on this, been on 3 weeks leave... > > > > On Fri, 8 Apr 2005, Doug White wrote: > > > > > On Wed, 6 Apr 2005, Carl Makin wrote: > > > > > > The boot sequence will hang if the USB drive is attached at boot. There > > > > > It seems to be a

Re: Dell PowerEdge 1855

2005-05-22 Thread Danny Braniss
> Hi Doug, > > Sorry for taking so long to reply on this, been on 3 weeks leave... > > On Fri, 8 Apr 2005, Doug White wrote: > > > On Wed, 6 Apr 2005, Carl Makin wrote: > > > > The boot sequence will hang if the USB drive is attached at boot. There > > > It seems to be acting like Uthe USB co

Re: Dell PowerEdge 1855

2005-04-28 Thread Carl Makin
Hi Doug, Sorry for taking so long to reply on this, been on 3 weeks leave... On Fri, 8 Apr 2005, Doug White wrote: > On Wed, 6 Apr 2005, Carl Makin wrote: > > The boot sequence will hang if the USB drive is attached at boot. There > It seems to be acting like Uthe USB controller isn't getting

Re: Dell PowerEdge 1855

2005-04-08 Thread Doug White
On Wed, 6 Apr 2005, Carl Makin wrote: > I also managed to get the CD rom drive working for the install. The > sequence is this; > > . boot system with cd > . unplug usb cdrom drive when "waiting for 15 seconds" appears > . plug in the usb drive once sysinstall has started > . switch to the second

Re: Dell PowerEdge 1855

2005-04-05 Thread Carl Makin
Afternoon! Just had more success with the Dell 1855. I split the disks into two individual drives visible to the OS and am now getting much better results. Bonnie and iozone transfer rates to and from a single drive of 50 to 60MB/s. This obviously just confirms the previous emails regarding this

Re: Dell PowerEdge 1855

2005-04-05 Thread Carl Makin
Hi Robert, Robert Blayzor wrote: I'd like to know if anyone has experience with the Dell PowerEdge 1855 blade servers running on either FreeBSD_4 or FreeBSD_5. I've just installed 5.4-RC1 on one and am testing it now. Apparently the 1855's integrated RAID uses the LSI (mpt) driv

Re: Dell PowerEdge 1855

2005-03-16 Thread Doug White
On Wed, 16 Mar 2005, Robert Blayzor wrote: > I'd like to know if anyone has experience with the Dell PowerEdge 1855 > blade servers running on either FreeBSD_4 or FreeBSD_5. > > I'm looking to deploy several servers and I know that the 1850's will > run just fine

Dell PowerEdge 1855

2005-03-16 Thread Robert Blayzor
I'd like to know if anyone has experience with the Dell PowerEdge 1855 blade servers running on either FreeBSD_4 or FreeBSD_5. I'm looking to deploy several servers and I know that the 1850's will run just fine. I have concerns over the PERC4/im and the ethernet controllers on