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Operating Systems BSD Jumping from Solaris to BSD? Post 302443227 by agama on Saturday 7th of August 2010 04:11:24 PM

08-07-2010

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I've been using FreeBSD for about 10 years now -- starting with an install of 4.0 on my laptop. Prior to that I did most of my work on Sun O/S (pre Solaris and Solaris) systems and had no problem making the switch. At the office, FreeBSD is the preferred O/S for our clusters. We do have some boxes that run Linux or Solaris, but in the last 10 years we've had better success with our BSD systems.

FreeBSD is straight forward to install, and the ports collection makes it fairly easy to install the support software that you need.

The only heartburn we've had with FreeBSD is the lack of hardware support for some 'odd' devices, and we currently have a set of (older) motherboards that seem not to be compatible with anything after BSD 6.3. Unfortunately I cannot offer any details on these hardware issues as I'm not directly involved with this project and only know that the sysadmins ran into this glitch.

Using FreeBSD as a workstation has been great. Flash has always been a nagging problem under BSD; offset somewhat by being able to use the Linux flash player in a "compatibility" mode, but flash has always been a pain for me under BSD.

Would I recommend FreeBSD to a friend? Absolutely, especially for 'lights out' operations like it sounds you'll be using it for.

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trm

TRM(4)							   BSD Kernel Interfaces Manual 						    TRM(4)

NAME

     trm -- Tekram TRM-S1040 ASIC based PCI SCSI host adapter driver

SYNOPSIS

     To compile this driver into the kernel, place the following lines in your kernel configuration file:

	   device scbus
	   device trm

     Alternatively, to load the driver as a module at boot time, place the following line in loader.conf(5):

	   trm_load="YES"

DESCRIPTION

     The trm driver supports PCI SCSI host adapters based on the Tekram TRM-S1040 SCSI ASIC.

HARDWARE

     SCSI controllers supported by the trm driver include:

     o	 Tekram DC-315 PCI Ultra SCSI adapter without BIOS and internal SCSI connector
     o	 Tekram DC-315U PCI Ultra SCSI adapter without BIOS
     o	 Tekram DC-395F PCI Ultra-Wide SCSI adapter with flash BIOS and 68-pin external SCSI connector
     o	 Tekram DC-395U PCI Ultra SCSI adapter with flash BIOS
     o	 Tekram DC-395UW PCI Ultra-Wide SCSI adapter with flash BIOS
     o	 Tekram DC-395U2W PCI Ultra2-Wide SCSI adapter with flash BIOS

     For the Tekram DC-310/U and DC-390F/U/UW/U2B/U2W/U3W PCI SCSI host adapters, use the sym(4) driver.

SEE ALSO

     cd(4), ch(4), da(4), intro(4), sa(4), scsi(4), sym(4)

     http://www.tekram.com/

AUTHORS

     The trm driver was originally written for FreeBSD 3.0/i386 by Erich Chen of Tekram Technology, and ported to FreeBSD 5.0 by Olivier Houchard
     <cognet@FreeBSD.org>.

BSD
								 December 8, 2002							       BSD

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