Re: [PE1400sc]

[Jamie Walker <jj.walker@auckland.ac.nz>]

On Wed, Jan 30, 2002 at 09:43:58AM -0500, Nick Holland wrote:
> I booted and installed OpenBSD on a PE1400sc recently, I do believe,
> client's machine destined to become a Netware server, but got
> sidetracked for most of a day as I tried to verify that the new MBR
> code worked properly on it...
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> Note: The machine spent <24 hours running OpenBSD, and never really
> *did* anything productive, so I really can't say how well it worked,
> but it appeared to run fine in the time I ran it.

I have three running OpenBSD 24/7. No issues with compatability. Have
had a minor stability issue - each one has locked/crashed etc precisely
once in the six months or so they've been in service. They haven't done
it nearly often enough to properly try and track it down.

One weirdness is that all three have add-in Intel NICs in addition to
the integrated one; Linux and FreeBSD see the integrated one first (ie
integrated/extra cards are eth0/fxp0 and eth1/fxp1 respectively) while
OpenBSD sees them in the opposite order (integrated is fxp1, extra card
is fxp0). It's not a problem, just a curiosity.

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