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

CPU: PII 233 MHz Celeron; 256MB RAM; IDE on the motherboard; SCSI card controler.
Running 4.8 Stable without any problems. You may use either SCSI or IDE.

PIII 933MHz.
From the user:
And to answer my own question. Here's the bug report for anyone experiencing the same problems...
Look at the PR.

CPU: 1 x PIII 933; 512MB RAM; RAID1 in hardware; drivers: ida, fxp.
From the user:
FreeBSD 4.7-R and above remark: in RAID setup in BIOS tools, set this to NT4 type of OS to be installed. High failure rate of power supplies. Possible reason in one charge: there is a plastic cardrholder for loooong PCI-cards sitting in front of the mid fan of the power supply, therefore generating backpressure. Shall be removed. Problem: When a single of the three fans in the PS is reported defective, the box will come up, and will only display on the VGA that you need to replace the PS, and refuse to boot.

CPU: 1 x PIIIS-1,4GHz; 512MB RAM; RAID1 in hardware; drivers: ciss, bge.
From the user:
FreeBSD 4.7-R and above.
Remarks: installs out-of-the cd, no hassle, RAIDsetup like Gen1.

CPU: 1 x PIII-733, Slot1; 512MB RAM; RAID1 in hardware, raidcontroller installed on separate card; drivers: ida, fxp.
From the user:
FreeBSD 4.6-R and above. 4.6-R is a bit picky about IDE drives, could not install from the atapi-cdrom. 4.6.2 unusable. Might be a problem with the atapi-code around 4.6, which was sometimes quite broken. Update to 4.8-stable without hassle after netinstalling 4.6 and later upgrade. RAID setup via Compaq CD.

CPU: 1 x PIII-800 Slot1, 256MB RAM; RAID1 in hardware; ida, I think; network - fxp driver.
From the user:
FreeBSD 4.8-R/Stable worked without hassle, but you have to install RAID via Compaq CD, no BIOS setup( like the ML370 above).

From another user:
BIOS setup can be done if you used the Compaq SmartStart CD and create a small partition on the primary hard drive and enter the configuration that way.

CPU: 2 x P4 Xeon 2.8GHz; 2GB RAM; additional Smart Array 5300 controller; both RAID controllers use ciss driver, NICs bge. 3x36.4GB 15K rpm disks as RAID5 on smart array 5300 card.
From the user:
Required options HTT in kernel as well as usual SMP options, otherwise SMP was non-functional, seemed to be losing interrupts. I'm not sure if this has been fixed yet, I haven't had a chance to investigate since the machines are in production.
Rrequired 4.8-RC to have functional NIC's, supported by the bge driver, but not until after 4.7 was released.

One further thing was the need for options HTT for SMP on the DL380G3's, to which end I mailed a man at HP about today and he's just got back to me informing me that the latest DL380G3 bios should fix it. The problem was apparrently that the BIOS HT proc's APICs enabled coming out of POST, which was incorrect behaviour for FreeBSD/SMP and this has now been fixed. So with the latest BIOS you can run SMP on DL380G3's with or without HT on FreeBSD 4.8, althought I've not had a change to try this myself!

CPU: 2 x PIII-500; 256MB RAM; No RAID; drivers: sym, tl (network).
From the user:
FreeBSD 4.7R, later compiled SMP kernel. Raid here in some kind of software driven junk, that broke during installation. RAID setup via Compaq CD. Install on single SCSI-drives. APart from the RAID thing, installation no problem. But: At least my box needed a keyboard to boot, with unplugged keyboard boot failure. (KVM switch or loopback plug advised)

CPU: Intel(R) Xeon(TM) CPU 3.06GHz (3055.58-MHz 686-class CPU)
Real memory = 4026507264 (3932136K bytes); Avail memory = 3920760832 (3828868K bytes)
From the user:
FreeBSD 4.9 installs fine, no hassle.
dmesg.
smp-dmesg.
ifconfig.
ifconfigm.
mptable.
smp-mptable.
smp-pciconf.
FreeBSD 5-CURRENT can be installed with acpi, no hickup.
(Set OStype in BIOS to linux or 2003 Server) SMP working fine, no probs, also the onboard NIC (Broadcom 5703) and the add-on Intel GigE-card is recognized fine.
dmesg-acpi.
dmesg-acpi-verbose.
mptable-acpi.
smp-acpi.
smp-noacpi.
smp-verbose-linuxos.
acpidump.
mptable.

No hardware spec.
From the user:
I was able to install FreeBSD on it and compile/boot an SMP kernel. That was about the extent of my playtime with the machine. I know the onboard NICs work fine using the fxp driver, the onboard video works OK and the onboard RAID controller is also supported via the ciss driver. The fans dont get all loud either.

No hardware spec.
From the user:
I have deployed one ML310 running 4.8-STABLE. The on-board LSI Logic MegaRAID ATA disk controller is not supported by 4.x, last I checked. I had to obtain and install a third-party driver from Eric Moore of LSI Logic. That driver seems to work fine. I do not know whether the ATA RAID on the ML310 will be supported in the 5.x branch.

CPU: 1 x P4 2,4GHz (max 2); 256MB DDR RAM (max 4GB); network - bge(4) driver; SCSI.
I was able to boot and install FreeBSD 5.1-RELEASE.

CPU: 2 x 3.06GHz (max 2); 2GB DDR SDRAM (max 6GB); 2 x 36GB drives in a RAID0 Smart Array 5i Plus controller; network - bge(4).

From the user:
Runs on 5.1-RELEASE. One is that the keyboard port doesnt seem to work with our KVM solution (a raritan paragon). The dongle we tried gets power from the keyboard port and that works since we can get video. However, we did not get any feedback from the keyboard. Plugging a keyboard directly into the machine works fine and using the dongle on another machine with the same keyboard works. We have seen this on both of the DL360G3's we have. The other issue is that there is no health monitoring driver for FreeBSD yet. My understanding is that one is in development and near completion. This would be a good thing - making world typically kicks the fans into high speed, and the only way to quiet them back down is to reboot the machine. I added CPU_SUSP_HLT to the kernel on that machine and it seems to get noisy less often. When the fans go into high speed mode they are pretty loud.

CPU: 1 x P4 Xeon 2.8GHz; 2GB RAM; RAID uses ciss driver, NICs bge; 2x36.4GB 15K rpm disks as RAID1 on smart array. From the user:
Installed fine from 4.8-RC1 CD.
Required 4.8-RC to have functional NIC's, supported by the bge driver, but not until after 4.7 was released.

CPU: 2 x 1.4 GHz Pentium III Xeon; 4GB RAM.
From the web:
Running FreeBSD 4.8 in a testdrive program.

CPU: 1 x PIII 1.4GHz; 256MB RAM; RAID controller uses ciss driver, NICs bge. From the user:
Installed fine from 4.7 CD.

CPU: 8 x P4 2GHz (max 8); 2MB cache; 4GB DDR SDRAM (max 64GB); network - bge(4); SCSI (hot-plugable).
I was able to boot, install FreeBSD 5.1-RELEASE and run in SMP.
I compiled and installed GENERIC + SMP kernel. Simply:
# cd /usr/src
# make buildkernel KERNCONF=SMP
# make installkernel KERNCONF=SMP
# fastboot

CPU: Intel Pentium Pro 200MHz w/ 256K cache; 480MB RAM; (5) 4GB SCSI hard drives in RAID-5; Compaq SMART-2/P Array (according to dmesg); 3Com 3C905B NIC.
From the user:
Running FreeBSD 4.7-STABLE with the standard Smart Array SCSI controller (32-bit PCI, single-channel) in RAID configuration... I'm not using the integrated NIC because if you unplug the cable or if the switch flips out, you must console into the machine, set the interface down then back up in order to regain connectivity. It also requires the MAXMEM kernel option in order to recognize > 16MB of RAM.

CPU: 4 x Pentium III Xeon; 1GB RAM; Compaq Smart Array 4200 SCSI RAID Controller; 4 x 9.1 Compaq SCSI disk.
From the user:
Running FreeBSD 4 fine but has RAID issues on FreeBSD 5. This problem is not restricted to just the Compaq Smart Array but seems to be a bug in the RAID skeleton somewhere and is covered by multiple bug reports.

CPU: 1 GHz P3; 128MB, 256MB, 512MB, 640MB, 1024MB of RAM on various systems. On-board integrated Wide Ultra2 SCSI or ATA/100 controller; 2 x Compaq integrated NC3163 Fast Ethernet NIC.
From the user:
Running FreeBSD 5.0, 4.7 and 4.8 fine on ATA and SCSI models.

CPU: 2.8 GHz P4; 1024MB RAM; i810 Intel integrated NIC (recognized as EEPro100); i845 Intel integrated video.
From the user:
FreeBSD 5.1 loads, but only after DMA is disabled in BIOS. However, X is really unhappy with the i845 video card. I had lockups with 5.1/XF864.3 and a Knoppix 3.2/XF864.3 install.
(XF86 4.3 uses vesa driver or i810, but lockup issue happens for both)

CPU: 867 MHz P3; 512MB RAM; HP Integrated NetRAID (Ultra160 capable); HP integrated NICs (reconized as EEPro100).
From the user:
FreeBSD 4.6, 5.0 load and run fine on SCSI model.

CPU: 1.4 GHz P4; 1024MB RAM; On-board ATA/100; 2 x 40GB ATA/100 Maxtor drives; OEM ATI Rage 128 AGP w/ 32MB RAM;
From the user:
FreeBSD 5.1 loads and runs fine. (XF86 4.3 uses ati driver, not r128... same issue w/ Linux installs)

CPU: Intel Pentium III 866MHz; 128MB RAM; LAN: 3Com 3c905C-TX Fast Etherlink XL; Graph: Intel i815; Sound: Intel 82801AA (ICH) AC'97 Audio Controller; HD: Seagate ST320413A 20GB; CDROM: LG CD-ROM CRD-8521B.
From the user:
Running FreeBSD 4.8-STABLE without any problems - revelation. Works as a small server with XFree86 - 1024x768 przy 100Hz.

CPU: 2x Pentium Pro200MHz; 256MB-ECC RAM; HDD: 2,1 GB SCSI UW; Chipset: Intel SB82442FX; CD-ROM IDE-8X; Graph: AGP MATROX Millenium II 4MB PCI; Sound: 16Bit zgodna z SoundBlasterem 2.0; PCI SCSI controler, UW SymbiosLogic SCSI - SymbiosLogic UW (External SCSI port knockouts: 1 Fast SCSI-2 50-pin, 1 Fast-Wide SCSI-2 68-pin); NIC: Compaq (RJ45, BNC) 10/100TX Mb.
From the user:
Works fine on FreeBSD 4.7-RELEASE. On 4.8-STABLE there was a problme with SCSI drive detection. Other systems of this class.

CPU: AMD Athlon(tm) Processor (1200.05-MHz 686-class CPU); 256MB RAM.
Running 5.1-Release as a home application server/workstation.

CPU: First Gen: P3 500MHz; 256MB RAM, 8GB IDE; CD-ROM.
From the user:
Running FreeBSD 4.8-RELEASE (haven't tried 5.x yet) which is running the web, mail and DNS servers for closedsrc.org. There are no PCI slots and some models do not include legacy ports (PS/2, Serial and Parallel), though the model I have does. heh... my debut article was on the topic of loading FreeBSD on it :)

CPU: 2 x 2.8GB Xeon.
From the user:
Running FreeBSD 4.8 Release. The box is used for mathematical/statistical number-crunching. There were no setup problems, except the BIOS needed IDE DMA transfers disabled for the BTX loader to work.

CPU: Mobile Celeron CPU running at 1066 MHz; 128MB SDRAM; 20GB ATA100 HDD; 14" TFT LCD; Onboard Intel 10/100Mbit ethernet; dual USB. From the user:
Running FreeBSD. Follow the link.

CPU: 700 Mhz P3 Mobile; 256MB RAM; 12GB ATA/100 IBM drive; OEM ATI Rage Mobility w/ 16MB RAM. From the user:
FreeBSD 4.6, 5.0 and 5.1 load and run fine. But, not configuring ACPI means the cooling fan won't run. CRC errors will happen eventually, and your drive loses data. OB500 has no BIOS-level "make fan run forever" setting.

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