Re: RHEL3 on a Dell Precision 470?

Matt Domsch <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.redhat.release.taroon.general
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On Sat, Apr 01, 2006 at 09:09:38AM +0200, coyote-NW4UT3oFr8dBDLzU/[email protected] wrote:
> 
> Hello everyone,
> 
> Are there any gotchas running RHEL3 WS on a Dell Precision 470 (SCSI 
> version)?

I presume you've read the tech sheet posted on support.dell.com.  I'll
also refer you to the http://linux.dell.com web site and
http://lists.us.dell.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-precision mailing list.

 
> Also, a few PCI cards would be added to this desktop running RHEL3U7 
> (another SCSI card and an FC card). Finally, they mention 'Hardware RAID', 
> is this one another of these software/hardware RAID subsystems? I have very 
> little information on this system except that it seems to perform quite 
> well under hefty load.

Hard to know without knowing what you're looking at, but you can get
true hardware RAID cards in these boxes, as well as using Linux
md-based software RAID.  The software/hardware combinations should be
avoided.

Thanks,
Matt

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