Re: dell 6850

2008-01-04 Thread Chris Parker
On Fri, 2008-01-04 at 08:46 -0600, Michael Shuler wrote: > On 01/03/2008 08:12 PM, Chris Parker wrote: > > I just recently got a new Dell Poweredge 6850 with 14 disk array and > > 132t Tape library. Does anyone have any experience with this server? > > The 6850 should "just work" with Etch. If

Re: dell 6850

2008-01-04 Thread Michael Shuler
On 01/03/2008 08:12 PM, Chris Parker wrote: I just recently got a new Dell Poweredge 6850 with 14 disk array and 132t Tape library. Does anyone have any experience with this server? The 6850 should "just work" with Etch. If you are using >4G RAM, you might consider using the amd64 flavor. I

dell 6850

2008-01-03 Thread Chris Parker
I just recently got a new Dell Poweredge 6850 with 14 disk array and 132t Tape library. Does anyone have any experience with this server? Are there any issues/problems to be aware of? It is planned to be a virtualization platform. Hopefully getting away from win2k3 on a few boxes. An Oracle dat

Kernel for Dell 6850 Quad-Dualcore-HT (16 CPU), 8GB RAM server?

2006-01-16 Thread Christian Hammers
Hello I have to install Linux on this pretty cool server described in the subject but sadly all tried kernels fails with Softlockups, messages that only 8 CPUs are supported, not detecting the full 8GB of RAM or the RAID controller or just halting without any error message. As Dell only supports