> > > In this case it's one of the 50 largest Oracle installtions in the > country... or was when I worked there. I don't think they can avoid > Oracle at this point, though moving to amd64/Linux/10g would > significantly cut their hardware costs. >
I wonder if Oracle's customers ever notice that Oricle itself doesn't run it's business on it's latest software - 11i (iirc), rather back on 9 something? But it's sure happy to let it's customers pay for the privledge for testing the software. > > It's an EMC fiber hba... and of course has vendor supplied drivers that > aren't in the kernel at large and aren't 64bit or so they have said. > I wonder if it's the old i960 based raid card? Probably best to chuck it and replace it with something more recent. But then, there's some clause in a contract the prevents that or the driver has a special proprietary mode that would require removing all the data, flashing the firmware in the disk array to something more current, then reloading all the data. I really loathe Enterprise solutions... Bob - -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
