On Mon, 2005-01-24 at 20:39 -0600, Brian Fahrlander wrote: > On Mon, 2005-01-24 at 18:33 -0800, Minnie Lau wrote: > > Hi! > > > > I am trying to buy a PC (rack mount) to work as a server, and I am > > planning to install Linux Kernel 2.6 on it. Does anyone know if the > > following hardware (if so, what brand name) will work with Linux > > Kernel 2.6: > > > > 1. Hard Drive: SCSI Raid 1 > > 2. USB 2.0 > > 3. Video Adapter (what type?) > > 4. Network Adapter (what type?) > > 5. Processor (what type?) > > You must be thinking SCO; Linux runs on almost everything. There > are pros and cons of various brands, and I'm sure that's the next step > in this thread, but Linux quit being hardware specific (other than for > gadgets and laptops) long ago. > > Personally, I like Adaptech SCSI cards, others like Promise. Is > this meant to be a powerful database (where disk accesses are more > important), web server (where memory and net speed is more important), > or file server where it's all important? :> ---- SCSI hard drives in RAID 1 sort of infers hardware raid, which seems to be more of the LSI and Adaptec territory but hardware support for 2.6 kernel is a bit light at the moment. Officially, few vendors will support this but that change is on the horizon in SuSE Professional and RHEL 4. I tend to try to use RAID 5 instead of RAID 1 for value, performance and redundancy benefits. Don't know about USB 2 on rack hardware. Video hardware...does it matter much on a rack mounted server? Most of these systems come with one and sometimes 2 1G NIC's, either broadcom or Intel...seem to work. Processors are what you are looking for in price/performance. Good luck - if I were you, at this point, I'd still be using 2.4 kernel for production systems and upgrade when appropriate. I see a number of people struggling to get things like FC-2 and FC-3 running on poweredge- linux mail list from dell...and of course, it isn't officially supported. Even once RHEL-4 is released, it will be interesting to see which hardware Dell is going to support. Craig
