Home Built Servers Configurations
Intel DK440LX dual processor motherboard
Motherboard: Intel DK440LX dual processor;
BIOS: Phoenix BIOS 4.0 Release 6.0;
Dual CPUs: Intel Pentium II 450 <Matched pair SL2U7> (running at
300) due to motherboard BIOS limit;
RAM: Single stick of generic 256MB;
SCSI: Onboard Adaptec aic7895 Ultra SCSI (two chanel) BIOS
1.32S2
IDE: Onboard, used IDE CD to boot and install FreeBSD
(replaced with +SCSI CD)
NIC: Onboard Intel Pro 10/100 using miibus (fxp0)
USB: Onboard <Intel 82371AB/EB> (PIIX4) USB controller Rev 1.0
+detected and installed, have not used it yet;
SCSI Drives: Boot from <IBM DCAS-34330W !# S65A> SCSI-2 (4 GB)
RAID: (4) <IBM DNES-309170W> SCSI-3 (9 GB) (Vinum = 36
GB)
SCSI Tape: <ARCHIVE IBM4326NP/RP !D 5AJ0> DDS2 (4 GB
native)
SCSI CDROM: <TOSHIBA CD-ROM XM-5701TA 3136> 12X
Sound: Onboard but not used nor tested
Video: Stealth 3D 2000 Ver1.1 4MB PCI slot (don't run X on a
server so who cares ;)
Power Supply: Antec True Power 330W
From the user - Bob Collins 'pineypl at bellsouth.net':
Running 5.0-RELEASE #7 with custom built kernel.
Install:
No issues, everything was properly detected and used.
Did have to compile dual processor support to use
both processors. Did not use the SCSI CD for install as
I did not have it handy at that time. Put a 5 second SCSI delay into
the kernel config file for boot SCSI delay to settle SCSIs.
Other:
This is a home server for file and print. Two users
and three machines attach to this server. We use Samba
for both file and print. Printer is an old HP DeskJet
500.
We use a Linksys router to share the DSL for all
machines.
The workstations that connect are all Windows 2000 Pro.
Longest uptime is 21 days, local power supply is trouble
and my batteries in the APC just died! This server is
about
4 months old. I built it myself mostly with collected
parts
from ebay!! I think I've done well, and FreeBSD is doing
great.
It logs in users and sets up shares and login scripts to
Win2K
faster than the Windows 2000 Server I was running on it
+previous!
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VIA microATX motherboard
VIA motherbord with VIA I386 comp. processor (ex Cyrix) on a
microATX motherboard at 566Mhz. 256MB SDram 100ns 40GB HD
IDE.
From the user:
FreeBSD 5.0 works out of the box. It has to work as a webserver.
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ABIT SA6R motherboard
CPU: Pentium III 866 MHz (133MHz FSB); 512MB RAM (max supported); NIC
Intel EtherExpress
Pro/100(B) Ethernet on PCI; IDE: 4 buses onboard, 2 normal / 2 RAID
(HighPoint HPT370 ATA100 controller);
ad0: 58644MB <IC35L060AVV207-0> [119150/16/63] at ata0-master
UDMA100
ad3: 39266MB <IC35L040AVER07-0> [79780/16/63] at ata1-slave
UDMA100
acd0: CDROM <LG CD-ROM CRD-8522B> at ata1-master PIO4
From the user:
Running FreeBSD 4.8-STABLE. Very good motherboard, absolutely no
problem. RAID can be 0 (stripping) or 1 (mirroring) and is recognized
right from FreeBSD install CD.
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MSI 649D-Pro motherboard
CPU: 2 x PIII 1GHz;
From the user:
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ASUS P4BGL-MX motherboard
From the user:
I encountered hangs after detecting pcib1 (ICH2). MB has rl 8100
ethernet chip onboard. Updating BIOS from version 1007 to 1009 resolves
hangs; now 4.8 successfully detects rl0 and (ab)uses it up to 7 Mb/s.
It seems old BIOS did not properly initialize south bridge...
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ABIT KT7 (Via KT133)
CPU: Duron 1300; 512MB RAM; LAN1: RealTek, LAN2: Genius LAN;
Graph: ATI Radeon 9000Pro; Sound: Creative Sound Blaster Live 1024; HD:
Seagate Barracuda IV 40 GB; CDROM: Teac 540E; CDBURNER: LiteOn
LTR-52246S.
From the user:
Running FreeBSD 5.1-RELEASE. All works fine, graphics - 1024x768
100Hz.
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Contact
E-mail:
<G.Czaplinski at prioris.mini.pw.edu.pl>
PGP Key:
<http://prioris.mini.pw.edu.pl/~gregory/pgp.txt>
"The Power to Serve, Right for the Power Users!" -
http://www.FreeBSD.org/
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