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Just a quick question to see if any of the list members are using |
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Gentoo - or any other Linux distro for that matter - on Dell |
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PowerEdge 2600 or 2800 servers? |
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A site I manage has had from new a 2800 running Windows, which we're |
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quite happy with (the 2800, that is, not Windows ;). We really need |
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new hardware for our Linux-based mailserver & similar systems seem to |
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be quite affordable on the secondhand market, and it would make quite |
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a bit of sense for us to use one of these. |
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I haven't done much digging yet, but thought a quick show of hands |
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here might save some time. It looks like the SCSI hot-swap / RAID |
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controller uses an AMI / LSI MegaRAID driver which is (?) part of the |
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main kernel - anyone know if that does status updates (dead-hard |
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drives &c) to the syslog? Does it depend on any userland utilities |
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that are only available as RPM or whatever? |
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I know RedHat &/or Suse are supported on this machine, but I've been |
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using Gentoo so long now I find it hard to use them thar binary |
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distros. It'd also be nice if power-supply failures were logged in |
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the same way - anyone know? I've had some experience in the past with |
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a Compaq Proliant 6500 and certain utilities for that would only |
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report problems via SNMP, which was a bit of a pain. |
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Cheers, |
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Stroller. |
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