anybody try a Newisys box?

[alan barrow]

As far as I understand newisys make board level changes to add specific 
functionality to the system. But the system is based on a tyan 2882 
mobo, with the IPMI card.

We have the 2882 mobo working with the IPMI card using consolue 
redirect. Full functionality of the IPMI can be achieved by deploying a 
windows box in the same LAN as the IPMI enabled servers, you can then 
connect to the controller and manage the servers.

We prefer the serial option, as this still gives you BIOS level remote 
control, and boot -restart visability from the worse case "system 
freeze" (which we have never had.)

The 2882's sent out by tyan do require a BIOS upgrade to V2nnn and above 
to work properly with RAID cards and an IPMI properly.

yours a.r.b.

Kenneth Stailey wrote:

>Has anybody tried running FreeBSD/amd64 on a Newisys box?
>
>The Sun Fire v20z is a Newisys 2100
>
>http://www.sun.com/servers/entry/v20z/
>
>http://www.newisys.com/products/2100_specifications.html
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>The Sun Fire v40z is a Newisys 4300
>
>http://dns-gmbh.de/promo_db/fl/index.jsp?slider=7
>
>http://www.newisys.com/products/4300.html
>
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