Russ Wickline wrote:
Hi
My name is Russ. I am looking to build two debian systems. I was
wondering if you have a list of components that debian will support. I
am looking to put a 1800+ celeron 256 mb of memory, 40 gig hd, raid
controller and video card, and one with a tape drive. If you have a
list of board i can use
thanks
Russ
Hello Russ,
no, we do not have a list of supported components
However:
- Most IDE and quite a few SCSI Controllers do support linux (look at
the vendor, they usually put up linux-drivers for their hw if they do
support linux)
- If you put raid, look to get two identical (same model) disks for RAID
1 (raid 0 isnt worth it imo, raid 5 is quite a bit of hassle to set up).
My server does software raid 1 (with an off-the shelf ide-controller)
- For tape drives: Amanda is a good piece of software to do tape
backups, and I think they have a list of supported drives up. look at
www.amanda.org
- Personally, I found that AMD Athlon-type processors are cheaper than
Intel Processors..
- Depending on what you do I'd put in more memory
Just my two cents
Robert
