I think the 4 TB Hard Disk space could be a problem.
Looks like NetBSD doesn't work well above 2 TB. But I don't know, if
that was only related to RAIDFRAME.

Z.


2006/2/14, Marc Tooley <netbsdMLpostNO@spam.quake.ca>:
>
> I'm picking up a nice machine for other testing purposes. It'll be
> midrange:
>
> Tyan Thunder K8W (S2885)
> LSI MegaRAID SATA 300-8X 8PT
> 8 x 250GB Maxtor SATA2/16MB/etc (for the MegaRAID)
> 1 x 250GB SATA2 for multibooted OSes
> 8 GB DDR400, ECC Registered RAM
> 2 x AMD Opteron 246
>
>
> ... and basically, I'm wondering whether there's anyone else running
> NetBSD on similar hardware with a useful degree of success?
>
> One specific: am I going to need to build a specialised kernel to prep
> for the 8GB RAM? I seem to recall that sometimes memory above 2GB
> requires:
>
> REALBASEMEM
> REALEXTMEM
>
> ... does it still?
>
> Comments appreciated; note the Reply-To: current-users@netbsd.org.
>
> Thanks.
>