John Summerfield wrote:
NO NO NO NO
"Certified to work with Red Hat Enterprise Linux" does not mean it
depends on RHEL.
Ja, I know :) It tells you that chances to run Linux on that hardware
are pretty good, but you can´t be sure.
For example, I´ve seen a SCSI raid controller supporting Red Hat a
Hans Wilmer wrote:
John Summerfield wrote:
As you never know exactly what hardware you´ll get from those
vendors, I do see chances for trouble with hardware supported only
with other distributions than Debian.
Arguably, many of those changes are to provide better compatibility
with the hardware
Jacob S. wrote:
get 3ware S-ATAs in RAID 3 or 5. There´s no point in using SCSI on them,
or at least I don´t get it.
Right. I didn't mean to suggest the RAID had to be SCSI (I can't find
SCSI in my original post... maybe I'm missing something).
It just came to my to mind that SCSI could be used, s
John Summerfield wrote:
As you never know exactly what hardware you´ll get from those vendors,
I do see chances for trouble with hardware supported only with other
distributions than Debian.
Arguably, many of those changes are to provide better compatibility with
the hardware. Also, quite a few
On Tue, Aug 10, 2004 at 02:14:32PM +0200, Hans Wilmer wrote:
> Jacob S. wrote:
>
> >help you too much there. I can tell you that your cpu won't be the
> >bottleneck for 40 samba users, though. You need to make sure you're
> >using Raid 0 or 5.
>
> Hm, we´ve a 3ware IDE RAID controller running in
Hans Wilmer wrote:
John Summerfield wrote:
Which kind of processors can you recommend, AMD (Opteron?) or some
Intel?
_I_ would go for Opteron. If you are interested in a mainstream
vendor, IBM, Sun and even HP have Opteron systems, and all support
Linux.
THX, so I´ll find out more about the O
John Cuson wrote:
hans-
you might also want to check out the forums at www.2cpu.com. a community of smp enthusiasts.
THX, I´ll check that out :)
GH
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Jacob S. wrote:
help you too much there. I can tell you that your cpu won't be the
bottleneck for 40 samba users, though. You need to make sure you're
using Raid 0 or 5.
Hm, we´ve a 3ware IDE RAID controller running in our mail server with
two HDs in RAID-1, and the disks seem pretty fast. New ser
John Summerfield wrote:
Which kind of processors can you recommend, AMD (Opteron?) or some Intel?
_I_ would go for Opteron. If you are interested in a mainstream vendor,
IBM, Sun and even HP have Opteron systems, and all support Linux.
THX, so I´ll find out more about the Opteron first. The probl
hans-
you might also want to check out the forums at www.2cpu.com. a community of smp
enthusiasts.
John Cuson
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"It is an old maxim of mine that when you have excluded the impossible, whatever
remains, however improbable, must be the truth."
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
>>> Hans
On Mon, 09 Aug 2004 16:15:45 +0200
Hans Wilmer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Hi!
>
> Unfortunately, I´m a bit lost on what hardware to use to build two
> servers. Both servers should run Debian, and I´m trying to find out
> about compatibility issues before buying any hardware.
>
> One of th
Tyan makes some interesting boards, but I don´t know if they
eventually have problems with Debian. How´s your experience with them?
--- I´ve been looking for a hardware compatibility list, but didn´t
find any decent information yet.
Which kind of processors can you recommend, AMD (Opteron?) or
Hi!
Unfortunately, I´m a bit lost on what hardware to use to build two
servers. Both servers should run Debian, and I´m trying to find out
about compatibility issues before buying any hardware.
One of the servers will be used as a fileserver running SAMBA as a PDC.
A single CPU system might be
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