Re: low-power/small form factor server (supermicro X9SCL-F w Core i3-3220T)

2013-11-20 Thread 'Bryan Vyhmeister'
On Thu, Nov 21, 2013 at 12:57:06AM -0500, Ted Unangst wrote: > machine hangs and such. you will figure out if you're affected or not > pretty quickly. :) cause unknown. Good to know. I'll try it out and see what happens. Thanks. Bryan

Re: low-power/small form factor server (supermicro X9SCL-F w Core i3-3220T)

2013-11-20 Thread Ted Unangst
On Wed, Nov 20, 2013 at 21:33, 'Bryan Vyhmeister' wrote: > On Wed, Nov 20, 2013 at 10:16:05PM -0500, Ted Unangst wrote: >> The ipmi driver is disabled by default because it does bad things on >> some systems. If you don't go out of your way to enable it, the not >> configured line is all you'll see

Re: low-power/small form factor server (supermicro X9SCL-F w Core i3-3220T)

2013-11-20 Thread 'Bryan Vyhmeister'
On Wed, Nov 20, 2013 at 10:16:05PM -0500, Ted Unangst wrote: > The ipmi driver is disabled by default because it does bad things on > some systems. If you don't go out of your way to enable it, the not > configured line is all you'll see. Thanks for the clarification. I wasn't aware of that. What

Re: low-power/small form factor server (supermicro X9SCL-F w Core i3-3220T)

2013-11-20 Thread Paul B. Henson
On Wed, Nov 20, 2013 at 10:16:05PM -0500, Ted Unangst wrote: > The ipmi driver is disabled by default because it does bad things on > some systems. If you don't go out of your way to enable it, the not > configured line is all you'll see. That's what I was going to say, but you beat me to it ;).

Re: low-power/small form factor server (supermicro X9SCL-F w Core i3-3220T)

2013-11-20 Thread Ted Unangst
On Wed, Nov 20, 2013 at 18:59, 'Bryan Vyhmeister' wrote: > (running 5.4, by the way). The ipmi(4) driver shows up in my dmesg but > as: > > ipmi at mainbus0 not configured > > A few years back I had an X7SPA-HF or similar board in the barebones > system you can buy but I don't have a dmesg from i

Re: low-power/small form factor server (supermicro X9SCL-F w Core i3-3220T)

2013-11-20 Thread 'Bryan Vyhmeister'
On Wed, Nov 20, 2013 at 05:38:33PM -0800, Paul B. Henson wrote: > I managed to escalate the integrated graphics question high enough to > find somebody who knew what they were talking about, he said, as you > confirmed, that they work fine with this motherboard other than that > you cannot use the

Re: low-power/small form factor server (supermicro X9SCL-F w Core i3-3220T)

2013-11-20 Thread Paul B. Henson
> From: 'Bryan Vyhmeister' [mailto:br...@bsdjournal.net] > Sent: Wednesday, November 20, 2013 1:51 PM > > Very interesting. There is some ambiguity in the specs. Looking at the > SC510L-200B chassis which is what's included with the SYS-5017C-LF > system you linked to, it also says 65W TDP. Well,

Re: low-power/small form factor server (supermicro X9SCL-F w Core i3-3220T)

2013-11-20 Thread 'Bryan Vyhmeister'
On Wed, Nov 20, 2013 at 01:31:23PM -0800, Paul B. Henson wrote: > Hmm, I guess I was actually looking at the SuperServer 5017C-LF page: > > http://www.supermicro.com/products/system/1U/5017/SYS-5017C-LF.cfm > > It has the X9SCL-F motherboard, a similar chassis with a 200w power supply, > and indi

Re: low-power/small form factor server (supermicro X9SCL-F w Core i3-3220T)

2013-11-20 Thread Paul B. Henson
On Wed, Nov 20, 2013 at 12:35:35PM -0800, 'Bryan Vyhmeister' wrote: > From looking at Supermicro's CSE-510-203B page, it says 65W TDP and > every CPU I've mentioned below except for the Xeon E3 1220 (80W) and > Xeon E3 1230v2 (69W) fall below this. Hmm, I guess I was actually looking at the Super

Re: low-power/small form factor server (supermicro X9SCL-F w Core i3-3220T)

2013-11-20 Thread 'Bryan Vyhmeister'
On Wed, Nov 20, 2013 at 12:26:49PM -0800, Paul B. Henson wrote: > With the 200W power supply in the small form factor chassis, > supermicro says the max processor TDP supported by the motherboard is > 45w. I guess if you put one in that potentially uses greater power but > never push it to do so it

Re: low-power/small form factor server (supermicro X9SCL-F w Core i3-3220T)

2013-11-20 Thread Paul B. Henson
> From: Stuart Henderson > Sent: Wednesday, November 20, 2013 3:54 AM > > One thing to note, which may be irrelevant, but may be very important, > is which CPUs support AES-NI - the LGA1155 Pentium/i3 don't. Yeah, you've got to bump up to a much more expensive Xeon to get that :(. Thanks for the h

Re: low-power/small form factor server (supermicro X9SCL-F w Core i3-3220T)

2013-11-20 Thread Paul B. Henson
> From: Bryan Vyhmeister [mailto:br...@bsdjournal.net] > Sent: Tuesday, November 19, 2013 9:46 PM > > I have lots of X9SCL-F, X9SCL+-F, X9SCM-F, X9SCI-LN4, X9SCI-LN4F, > X9SCM-iiF boards running OpenBSD in production. Both network interfaces > work flawlessly. Cool, thanks much for the info. > Al

Re: low-power/small form factor server (supermicro X9SCL-F w Core i3-3220T)

2013-11-20 Thread Stuart Henderson
On 2013-11-20, Bryan Vyhmeister wrote: > You'll have no issues at all. It's a great combination. I tell my > customers and everyone else to just go with an X9SC{L,M} board, an > LGA1155 Pentium, Core i3, or Xeon E3 (if absolutely necessary) and be > done with it. The cheaper Pentium chips and Core

Re: low-power/small form factor server (supermicro X9SCL-F w Core i3-3220T)

2013-11-19 Thread Bryan Vyhmeister
On Tue, Nov 19, 2013 at 07:45:46PM -0800, Paul B. Henson wrote: > I'm looking at the supermicro X9SCL-F motherboard which has an Intel > C202 PCH chipset and 2 gigabit interfaces (Intel 82579LM and 82574L), > combined with a Core i3-3220T, stuffed in a 510T-203B chassis. I have lots of X9SCL-F, X9

low-power/small form factor server (supermicro X9SCL-F w Core i3-3220T)

2013-11-19 Thread Paul B. Henson
I was recently looking for a low-power small form factor box and was initially thinking of the supermicro SuperServer 5017A-EF, which seemed a good fit. Unfortunately, the fairly new atom SoC in that box isn't currently supported, nor is the crappy "not-quite-AHCI" Marvell sata controller. So, I'm