My understanding is that the Hardware Smart-2 RAID on the Compaq is not
officially supported and you will need a 2.3.x kernel to get it
working...probably with patches.
I don't know much about the dell..
Over the last 6 months, I've pretty much learnt that if you want to use
Linux, badged systems are probably not a good idea...not to mention the fact
that if a HD dies on a badged system, you have to replace it with their
drives which are usually pretty expensive.
Have you looked at valinux servers?
Regards,
Matthew Clark.
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> Subject: Suggestions for raid setup
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>
> We need not only a raid setup, but we also will need to be able to
> hot-swap the drives. Reading recent discussion it seems that compaq
> should be avoided. We will be running RH6.1 on an e-mail server needing a
> total of 30gig or so. My options are the compaq proliant and a dell with
> the adapted AIC78xx.
>
> I am new to raid and scsi in general, so any suggestions and doc pointers
> would be great!
>
> Thanks,
> David Hajoglou
>
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