Hello,
I'm looking at buying a Dell PE 600 SC with the PERC4-SC RAID controller and
would like to know if anyone has installed Slackware on one of these.
Assuming there are drivers for the controller, are they stable enough to use
in a business environment? I'd like to use it as a file server and backup
for a small group that works with lots of large files. Are there any known
issues or gotchas? I googled a bit for this but would really like to hear
from someone who has done it before. Any insight appreciated.
Louis

3c273 <nospam@nospam.com> wrote:
> I'm looking at buying a Dell PE 600 SC with the PERC4-SC RAID controller and
> would like to know if anyone has installed Slackware on one of these.

NOT yet, no, but we'll probably be buying those for our new servers.
As far as I know the SCSI adapter is Adaptec compatible (might even
be a relabeled AIC one).
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On Tue, 06 Apr 2004 08:27:55 -0700, 3c273 wrote:
> Hello,
> I'm looking at buying a Dell PE 600 SC with the PERC4-SC RAID controller and
> would like to know if anyone has installed Slackware on one of these.
> Assuming there are drivers for the controller, are they stable enough to use
> in a business environment? I'd like to use it as a file server and backup
> for a small group that works with lots of large files. Are there any known
> issues or gotchas? I googled a bit for this but would really like to hear
> from someone who has done it before. Any insight appreciated.
> Louis

I've worked on quite a few PE servers. Sometimes they are LSI Logic ones
that use the megraid driver, and sometimes they are adaptec ones that use
the aacraid driver.

The aacraid ones are a bit more of a hassle to install as the kernel needs
recompiling to get the driver in it as its not built in to the standard
kernels on the install disk (at least it wasn't on 9.0).

I can't say I have had any problems with either in use, they have worked
reliablely even on a reasonably well loaded web server.

3c273 wrote:

> Hello,
> I'm looking at buying a Dell PE 600 SC with the PERC4-SC RAID controller and
> would like to know if anyone has installed Slackware on one of these.
> Assuming there are drivers for the controller, are they stable enough to use
> in a business environment? I'd like to use it as a file server and backup
> for a small group that works with lots of large files. Are there any known
> issues or gotchas? I googled a bit for this but would really like to hear
> from someone who has done it before. Any insight appreciated.
> Louis

Take a look here :
http://public.www.planetmirror.com/pub/domsch/

Regards

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"Roberto Gerola" <roberto.gerola@speedtech.it> wrote in message
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> Take a look here :
> http://public.www.planetmirror.com/pub/domsch/
>
> Regards
>
Thanks for the link and to all who replied.
Louis