I have smartstart cd's What Raid Controller is in it? Are you sure this is a PII 200 and not a PII 400 or even Xion... or is it a Pentium Pro 2000? I know Red Hat has the SmartArray 2 drivers... Not sure of other distributions. Sam. Quoting Bruce Broecker <bruce.broecker at toro.com>: > >>> johnnyfulcrum at mn.rr.com 06/09/04 09:36AM >>> > >Itching to learn more about linux on "server hardware". So I'm bidding on > >a Compaq Proliant 7000 with Quad Pentium II 200MHz processors, 640MB of > >RAM, and 11 18.2GB Wide Ultra SCSI hard drives. > > Should be a nice setup. > > >Am I in for a nightmare? or will this unit allow me to get a good taste > >for setting Linux up on hardware one might use in a production type > >environment? I've never dealt with SCSI drives, Raiding stuff, SMP > 2 > >cpu - not to mention anything that'd go in a rack - has multiple power > >supplies - hot swapping etc etc... > > Make sure you get the Compaq SmartStart CD with the server. It will > help you in the initial configuration of the hardware, and includes a RAID > configuration utility for the Hardware RAID. Configure the RAID in hardware, > rather than software. You will get better performance, and it will simplify > your life. If you don't get one, let me know, I can probably provide it. > > SuSE since at least 8.1 works well with the Compaq servers. Anything more > recent than a Compaq 3000 has installed without a hitch (for me). The 7000 > is, I believe, a similar vintage so should be well supported. > > SCSI is not a big deal, particularly in a hot swap chassis, since termination > and > what not are handled automatically for you. You simply need to remember that > the device naming scheme may be different for SCSI device vs. IDE. > > >Also - what would one expect to pay for a unit as described above? > > No idea, I get my stuff from work. > > >Thanks all... > > Welcome! > > >johnnyf > > Bruce > > > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > Help beta test TCLUG's potential new home: http://plone.mn-linux.org > Got pictures for TCLUG? Beta test http://plone.mn-linux.org/gallery > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota Help beta test TCLUG's potential new home: http://plone.mn-linux.org Got pictures for TCLUG? Beta test http://plone.mn-linux.org/gallery tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list