On Mon, May 23, 2011 at 4:22 PM, David A. Parker <dpar...@utica.edu> wrote: > On 05/23/2011 09:33 AM, Jacek Politowski wrote: >> >> I'm going to buy a low-end server with 12 SATA HDDs. >> >> I've received an offer for HP DL180 G6 with interesting price. >> Now I'm trying to find out whether this proliant works correctly >> with Debian (either squeeze or testing (or even unstable)). >> >> >> Server has HP P212/ZM and P410/256 controllers (I guess it needs two >> controllers to accomodate support 12 HDDs). >> >> I actually don't need any RAID functionality from these controllers >> (I'm going to use standard linux md soft-raid anyway). >> >> >> Does anybody use HP DL180 G6 with Debian here and can confirm that >> Debian works correctly on that server? >> >> Unfortunately google wasn't really helpful (at least for "dl180 g6 >> debian", "p212 debian" and similar phrases). >> > > Hello, > > I just installed Squeeze on several HP DL360 G6 servers and it works fine. > Each of these servers has the P410i controller with two physical disks > configured in a RAID 1 mirror. Debian uses the built-in cciss driver and > maps the RAID volume to /dev/cciss/c0d0. If you don't have a RAID volume > set up, I would imagine it would map the first physical drive to > /dev/cciss/c0d0, the next to /dev/cciss/c0d1, etc. > > One quick note, you will need the firmware for the network hardware in these > machines. Download this file: > > ttp://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/pool/non-free/f/firmware-nonfree/firmware-bnx2_0.28_all.deb
...or use the squeeze + non-free installer: http://www.debian.org/releases/squeeze/debian-installer/ "netinst (generally 175-240 MB) non-free CD images with firmare" 2cts -- Mathieu -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/BANLkTinV-CiRJfg4vZ0nfhsWv6t=j0n...@mail.gmail.com