Dell's got a decent deal on their PowerEdge T105 box with an 1.8GHz AMD dual-core Opteron, 512MB RAM, 80GB disk, and Gigabit ether: $350. I'd love to pick one of these up if FreeBSD was known to work on it, especially FreeBSD-7. Any reports of success or failure? I couldn't find anything on Google, the FreeBSD mailing list search, nor on http://www.freebsd.org/platforms/amd64/motherboards.html Thanks.
On Dec 7, 2007, at 10:11 AM, Chris Shenton wrote:> Dell's got a decent deal on their PowerEdge T105 box with an 1.8GHz > AMD > dual-core Opteron, 512MB RAM, 80GB disk, and Gigabit ether: $350.Dell's got a great return policy. If it doesn't work, report here and send it back. If it does work, report here and keep it! :-)
Ivan Voras <ivoras@freebsd.org> writes:> The CPU will certainly work. I can't dig out any decent data on the > motherboard, but it it's NVIDIA MCP55, then it will also work (just had > a Barcelona-class Opteron with MCP55 the other day and it's fine).The spec sheet says the following, does this help? http://www.dell.com/downloads/global/products/pedge/en/pe_T105_spec_sheet.pdf Processors Single AMD Opteron TM 1000 series at up to 2.8GHz; Single AMD SempronTM LE1250 at 2.2GHz HyperTransportTM HyperTransport at 2000MT/s Cache Up to 2MB AMD Opteron TM 512K AMD Sempron TM Chipset nVidia CK8-04 Pro Memory 512MB-8GB DDR1 677/800 I/O slots Two PCI Express TM x8; One PCI Express x1; One PCI 32 bit/33MHz, 5v Drive Controller Embedded SATA; optional SAS RAID Controller Optional SAS 6i/R for SAS or SATA RAID Drive Bays 2 x 3.5 cabled SATA or SAS 2 x 5.25 optional DVD-ROM, CD-RW/DVD combo or optional internal TBU Network Interfaces Single embedded Gigabit3 NIC