any success with new sun "M2" product variant for X4100 and X2100

[Andras Gót]

Hi,

We'are using an x2100m2 with FreeBSD6.2. On the ethernet side, the 
x2100m2 has two bge iface. On the original x2100 the bge iface works 
fine for me. On the M2 x2100 try ONLY FreeBSD 6.2, because 6.1 will be 
terribly slow. The x2100m2 has two sata2 disk bays, where you can insert 
almost any normal sata2 hdd-s. I had very big problems, with the orig 
x2100 satahalfhwraid on freebsd, i suggest you shoud avoid that. The 
hdd-s work fine without the hwraid (ataraid) and gmirror does the job 
nicely.

Regards,
Andras


Vivek Khera wrote:
> Has anyone successfully booted FreeBSD 6 on the new "M2" variants of 
> sun's X2100 or X4100 boxes? I have three X4100 original versions that 
> works stunningly well (but I don't use the internal disks) with 
> FreeBSD 6.1.  I was just curious how the new ones work, and the X2100 
> seems to fit the bill for what I currently need.
>
> Also, if anyone knows which ethernet ports they put in that'd be 
> helpful.  I'd avoid them if they had broadcom chips :-(
>