Joel Jaeggli wrote:
On Sun, 21 Aug 2005, John Rowan wrote:
Well, the lack of a workable RAID with Linux, problems with (primary
application) Pick reporting illegal activation after cold starting
the server and lack of redundant hot swap power supplies has the
SuperMicro / Visionman back in the box waiting for an RMA. I think
it was designed more as a Windows machine and as an afterthought
claimed to run Linux. Anyone have a suggestion for a quiet, cool
running machine, hot swap hard power supplies and hard drives with
hardware RAID (preferably compatible with RH9 as primary app will not
be supported under any release of Fedora Core)?
there is no motherboard I'm aware of with an ata or sata hardware
raidcontroller. (I have a couple compaq ml380's with compaq smart
array controllers on the motherboard but those are scsi).
The budget allows for only $1,400 US.
serial-ata is not well supported in redhat-9. rhel-3 actually has
quite good serial-ata support for something still built on the 2.4kernel.
I like SCSI, all my servers run SCSI, this was my first exposure to
SATA. How is the noise level with the ML380? I am currently working
with Proliant (old) 5000R, 6400R, 6500R and DL760 units and the noise
from the fans is too much to ask someone to have in a small office
environment.
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