> I'm about to set up some Dell PowerEdge 6100/200 (Dual and Quad PPro) to
> run linux smp. The boxen come with AMI 'Dell RAID II' (or somesuch)
> controllers (i960 based), which I probably won't be using at first.
>
> Are there any issues or gotchas with these?
Those RAID cards are now supported in standard in 2.0.36 and 2.2.x, but
they perform *really* badly under linux. Probably due to an untuned driver
basically iozone or any I/O test program nearly freeze the machine :-(
You can try software RAID, or buy another brand of RAID cards.
Daniel
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