I know this is off-topic to the list, but someone asked me to make the information that I garnered about Dell Poweredge systems available to the list. So, here it is. Basically, after a search on dejanews, I came across this article: http://x5.dejanews.com/getdoc.xp?AN=430135686&CONTEXT=917266543.1696071777&hitnum=19 In it, someone states that there are drivers for the PERC RAID controllers, but there are no drivers available for the PERC/2 Single channel PCI system (the faster 80 MB/sec one). So, basically, if you buy a Poweredge server for Linux, you need to buy the PERC controllers with it, and not PERC/2. Debian Boot Disks for Debian 2.0 Installation: http://www.debian.org/~adric/aic7xxx/ Red Hat 5.2 has the drivers built in. However, there is a caveat: For Red Hat installation, you need to specify, in the module options, aic7xxx=no_probe. You cannot select Autoprobe. Otherwise the system will hang, since it probes in the PCI space of other adapter cards. I got this information from the following dejanews post: http://x5.dejanews.com/getdoc.xp?AN=430207456&CONTEXT=917266543.1696071777&hitnum=6 Thanks for all of your help. Hopefully, life will be a little bit easier for someone else looking for this information. I will be making a (simplistic) web page with just the information above available at http://allie.alliedtours.com/~edgy/poweredge.html if anyone is interested. Ben
> > > > If you have any experiences with hardware for a powerful fault-tolerant > > redundant RAID system on the budget of $10000 or less, I'd be interested > > in finding out what kind of hardware you got and whether you have any > > problems with it.I'm currently testing out some SCSI->IDE RAID 5 systems (not banging on them too rigorously at the moment, but no obvious flaws so far). Basically, you get a SCSI interface that the computer sees, but the enclosure holds 3 IDE drives, and the whole thing snugs into a tower chassis. RAID 5 at about $2200 for 12 Gigabytes (using 6 Gig Seagates). I figure by the time the warranty ends on the IDE drives, IDE will be dead anyway, and keeping a few extra IDE drives around for hot swaps isn't too expensive. I wouldn't stream video off this, but for a lot of uses, seems pretty effective. Model I'm using is from Proware, Dataplum. www.proware.com.tw, but there are other competitors out there. (They also have a SCSI->SCSI version, but then of course the price goes up...) -- Bill Eldridge Radio Free Asia bill@rfa.org
When the world was young, Chakaphan Supacharuwong carved some runes like this:> I am new for Samba. I have Samba server which run on Redhat 5.0. I read > printer_driver.txt. I follow all the steps in document. When I test print > from Win95, it print out the header on one page(Win95 logo and Window 95 > Printer Test Page"). Then, it prints out the message body that cannot read > on the other page. I do not know what is wrong in my smb config file.It sounds like the CR/LF thing. If so, it's not a problem in smb.conf, but in your printer setup. What happens when you print a text file from the RedHat side? Did you setup the printer with the RedHat printtool (in control-panel)? If so, did you check the option "fix stair-step text" for the input filter for the desired printer? If you use this method to setup an SMB printer under RedHat, it should work fine. Steve ************************************************************ Stephen L. Arnold arnold.steve@ensco.com Linux: It's not just for nerds anymore...