On Tue, Feb 04, 2003 at 12:30:53AM +0100, Willi Dyck wrote: > On Mon, Feb 03, 2003 at 12:59:27PM -0500, Debian User wrote: > [...snip...] > > Ha, tomorrow I am going to play with a nice Compaq Proliant 1850 :-) > with two QFE nics, a Compaq SMART Array controller with two Ultra Wide > SCSI 18GiG attached to it (hot-swapable, I think?!?). It has currently > only one CPU but is upgradable up to 2 CPU's. I think it supports up to > 2GiG SDRAM. It is 3U high. I will report to this list if I had success > or not. So far I have managed to boot Debian 3.0 stable from a self made > bootable CD, which runs completly in RAM. The Compaq SMART Array > controller is supported by the Linux kernel (2.4.X), but I have not yet > actually build a RAID.
I just installed a Proliant ML530 G2 and actually i had to create my own installfloppies with a patched kernel for the Smart Array Controller ( http://sourceforge.net/projects/cciss/ ) and i had to add the driver for the Intel e1000 gigabit NIC by hand. I used 2.4.18. charlie -- Végh Károly - System Engineer - UTA - TIS.SAS.BSS Cynics says that Hungarians created America's Hollywood before other Hungarians less destructively created America's A-bomb. http://www.mek.iif.hu/kiallit/tudtor/tudos1/martians.html -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
