Grzegorz Czapliński _{--> FreeBSD --> DELL i386}

CPU: 2 x Xeon 2,4 GHz; Adaptec? AIC-7899 SCSI controller; 2 Broadcom NetXtremeTM-Gigabit NICs; PERC 3/Di RAID controller (with 5 disk, RAID-5).
From the user:
Running FreeBSD 4.7 and higher. PowerVault 122T VS80 DLT tape exchanger, tape exchange supported by "mt eject" command. Problems are to be expected with FreeBSD 4.6-R and earlier (Broadcom driver fixed shortly before 4.7-R).

CPU: 2 x Xeon CPU 2,4 GHz; 4GB RAM; 4x36GB HDD; Adeptec 3960D Ultra160 SCSI controller Intel 82557/8/9 EtherExpress Pro.
From the user:
Freebsd versions: 4.7-R, 5.0-R, 5.1-RC*, 5.1-BETA*, 5.1-R.

CPU: 2.4 GHz Pentium 4 Xeon; 1GB RAM; 4x 18 gig 15k rpm disks, currently not configured in RAID
From the user:
Running FreeBSD 4.8-Release. All installs were done via CD-ROM. All machines are completely stable, have not had a single hardware related crash yet. FreeBSD recognizes all serial and usb ports on above machines just fine.

CPU: 2 x PIII 933MHz; 1GB RAM; bge and fxp NICs drivers; PERC 4/Di - SCSI RAID controller.
From the user:
Running 4.6 FreeBSD; it's the rackmount server, which has been replaced by the 2650. It's about a year old and they've moved from P3's to P4 Xeons now..

CPU: 2 x 933MHz P III (SMP); 512 MB RAM; PERC 3 - SCSI RAID controller; amrd0: <LSILogic MegaRAID logical drive> on amr0 amrd0: 34556MB RAID 1 (optimal) ( 4x18 gig disks - it's actually a RAID-10)
From the user:
Running FreeBSD 4.8-Release. All installs were done via CD-ROM. All machines are completely stable, have not had a single hardware related crash yet. FreeBSD recognizes all serial and usb ports on above machines just fine.

CPU: 1 x P4 Xeon 2.0GHz; 1GB RAM; PERC 4/Di.
From the user:
Installed fine, requires 4.8 FreeBSD for RAID controller with amr driver, works fine with SMP and HTT options, integrated GBNIC uses em driver.

CPU: 2 x PIII 1.4 GHz; 2GB ECC RAM; Intel Pro/1000, Adaptec Aic7899 Ultra 160.
From the user:
Running FreeBSD 4.8, SMP and PXE (network) boot fine. Everything rock solid, but had to remove USB support (kernel panic). Currently running 15 of them for dir.com (a french search engine).

CPU: 2 x Pentium II 350MHz; 256MB RAM; (3) 9GB SCSI; Integrated SCSI controller; Intel 10/100 Ethernet NIC (fxp) and 3Com 3C905B NIC (xl).
From the user:
Running 4.8-RELEASE smoothly as a gateway and a test PPTP VPN server.

CPU: Intel Celeron 433MHz; 256MB RAM; Intel i810 chipset (integrated video); Integrated 3Com 10/100 NIC (xl); 20GB IDE hard drive.
From the user:
Running 4.8-RELEASE as a DNS caching and authoritative server, as well as a console server to connect to switches and firewalls via serial. The machine is a smaller desktop case rather than the full sized desktop or tower case. Do not run X.

CPU: Intel Pentium III 667MHz; 384MB RAM; (2) 40GB IDE hard drives; Integrated 3Com 10/100 NIC (xl); Intel i810 chipset (integrated video).
From the user:
Running 4.8-RELEASE as a DNS caching and authoritative server plus web and database (MySQL and PGSQL) server. Do not run X.

CPU: 2 x Intel Pentium III 500MHz; 256MB RAM; 3Ware 7000-2 ATA RAID Controller; 60GB IDE and (2) 80GB IDE; Diamond Viper TNT2 AGP video card; Intel 440BX chipset; Integrated 3Com 10/100 NIC (xl).
From the user:
The machine runs as a file server at home with 4.7-STABLE, XFree86 4.3.0 and Samba.

CPU: 1GHz Pentium 3; 512MB RAM; aac0: <Dell PERC 3/Di> aacd0: <RAID 5> on aac0 - aacd0: 34711MB (3x18 gig disks).
From the user:
Running FreeBSD 4.8-Release. All installs were done via CD-ROM. All machines are completely stable, have not had a single hardware related crash yet. FreeBSD recognizes all serial and usb ports on above machines just fine.

750MHz Pentium 3; 256 MB RAM;
ahc0: <Adaptec aic7890 Ultra2 SCSI adapter>
From the user:
Running FreeBSD 4.8-Release. All installs were done via CD-ROM. All machines are completely stable, have not had a single hardware related crash yet. FreeBSD recognizes all serial and usb ports on above machines just fine.

CPU: 850MHz Pentium 3; 512 MB RAM;
ahc0: <Adaptec aic7899 Ultra160 SCSI adapter>
Queueing
From the user:
Running FreeBSD 4.8-Release. All installs were done via CD-ROM. All machines are completely stable, have not had a single hardware related crash yet. FreeBSD recognizes all serial and usb ports on above machines just fine.

CPU: 1GHz Pentium 3; 512 MB RAM;
ahc0: <Adaptec aic7899 Ultra160 SCSI adapter>
ahc1: <Adaptec aic7899 Ultra160 SCSI adapter>
From the user:
Running FreeBSD 4.8-Release. All installs were done via CD-ROM. All machines are completely stable, have not had a single hardware related crash yet. FreeBSD recognizes all serial and usb ports on above machines just fine.

CPU: Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.40GHz (2399.33-MHz 686-class CPU); 256MB RAM; NIC - em0 driver; LSILogic MegaRAID; ATI Mach64-GR graphics accelerator; Generic PCI ATA controller.
From the user:
Running FreeBSD 4.8.

CPU: 2 x Xeon 3.0 GHz; 1 GB RAM; 36GB Ultra SCSI-3 Seagate HDD; LSILogic 1030 Ultra4 Adapter (on-board); Adaptec 3960D Ultra160 SCSI Adapter (add-on); Broadcom BCM5704C Dual Gigabit Ethernet.
From the user:
Installed from FreeBSD 5.1 CDROM, all hardware was recognized (no BIOS tweaks). SMP works fine (hyper-threading enabled, i.e. 4 with virtual CPUs), no ACPI problems at all. Overall experience is great. There was a small problem connecting it to Promise RM4000 external RAID enclosure. When connected to LSILogic it behaves really weird - SCSI timeouts and such, but when connected to Adaptec 3960D it works fine.

CPU: 2 x Intel Pentium II 400MHz; 256MB RAM; Adaptec aic7890/91 Ultra2 SCSI adapter, Adaptec aic7880 Ultra SCSI adapter; 3 SCSI HDDs, DDS1 and DDS4 SCSI drives, SCSI JAZZ drive, SCSI CD-RW; Diamond FireGL 1000 Pro video card; Intel 440BX chipset; Integrated 3Com 10/100 NIC (xl).
From the user:
The machine runs FreeBSD since 3.0-CURRENT, now 4.8-STABLE. It runs Apache, J2EE application server (Orion), Amanda and Samba servers.

CPU: Tualatin 1.13GHz PIII's;
From the user:
Ive had no problems at all with it.

From the user:
Running FreeBSD 5.1-Release. It works just fine... I use it for: web content filtering server, PHP4.3, Apache2, MYSQL4, etc... It has Intel 875 Chipset, Intel/1000 Network, ATI Pci graphics.. Its not a typical "Server Hardware" It has onboard sound :)) (can be used as a good desktop too:))

CPU: 1; RAM: 512MB; 3 drives as RAID5 on LSI Megaraid, reporting as PERCRaid 4/Di.
From the user:
Caveat: FreeBSD 4.8-R won't recognize the Broadcom 5704C-Chips, because of lacking pci id.

4.9-Prerelease works fine so far.
Otherwise a nice box, also quite well organized internally. (No comparison to those old 1550, which are essentially a pile of junk).
dmesg

From the freebsd-hackers@ mailing list:
I installed FreeBSD 5.2 on Dell Poweredge 1600SC. However FreeBSD doesn't recognize network card. It has onboard Intel Pro 1000 card. The machine has Pentium 4 XEON processor(logical processor enabled) with 512 MB ram. I did cvsup to CURRENT and compiled source using make buildworld. Kernel compiled smoothly and installed successfully. However when I reboot it hangs showing acpi.ko. I tried also loading kernel without ACPI. Even tried safe mode and single user mode, no result. Then I booted back to old kernel. Can sombody explain me the reason why it is not booting after upgrade? Or should I wait day one or two and then update again?

And the reply....
You probably want to try loading the if_em.ko module. I recently installed 4.9 on a newer Optiplex machine with an em(4) card and noticed that sysinstall didn't pick it up right away, so I put if_em.ko on an MSDOS floppy and loaded it from within the 'post-install options' menu before installing (somewhat confusing).

CPU: Intel Pentium III 500MHz (original CPU was a 450MHz); 320MB RAM; Diamond FirePort PCI SCSI controller (Ultra SCSI); Adaptec 2940UW SCSI controller; 13GB IDE, 9GB SCSI, and (2) 6GB SCSI; Diamond Viper TNT2 AGP video card; Intel 440BX chipset; Integrated 3Com 10/100 NIC (xl).
From the user:
That machine is my BSD workstation that is running 5.1-RELEASE, XFree86 4.3.0, OpenOffice.org (built from source), Eclipse, and JDK 1.3.1.

CPU: Intel Pentium II 400Mhz; 128MB Ram; Modem/LAN: Cardbus Xircom X3201 10/100BaseTX; Graph: : NeoMagic 256ZX; Sound: : NeoMagic (SigmaTel STAC9704 AC97 Codec); HDD: FUJITSU MHH2064AT 6.2GB; CDROM: TOSHIBA CD-ROM XM-1902B; TouchPad; Screen size - 14".
From the user:
Running FreeBSD 5.1-RELEASE. There is a problem with ACPI (as with Dells), can't check the battery state during boot.

Running FreeBSD 4.9-RELEASE. Kernel without ACPI works fine.
dmesg

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