Re: Debian on Dell Poweredge 750 and 1750 servers.

Am 13. Dec, 2004 schwätzte Kevin Brown so:

> >>I am going to be purchasing a Dell PowerEdge 750 and a Dell PowerEdge
> >>1750 and I wanted to confirm that the raid cards will work with Debian
> >>
> >>
> >>In the 1750 the card is PERC4-DI, 128MB Battery Backed Cache, 1 Int 1
> >>ext Ch-Embedded Raid PE1750 (340-8156)
> >>
> >>In the 750 the card is PERC4,DC,128MB,1 Internal Cha (342-0014) which
> >>is an LSI controller - chipset LSI53C1030
> >>
> >>
> >>Is there anything else that I should look at before I purchaase them to
> >>be sure they will work with Debian?
> >
> >
> > Ask the Dell salesdroid or salesmail if those boxen will work with Linux.
> > They will probably quote some RH or another, but if it's in the kernel you
> > can use it with any distro :). If they only claim RH enterprise something
> > then you might want to verify that the drivers are available from
> > kernel.org.
> >
> > Does RH ship with proprietary drivers? Is that something to check into as
> > well?
>
> No, RH doesn't ship with proprietary drivers (last I checked). To do an install
> to a poweredge with a PERC/2 controller, I had to use an additional floppy from
> Dell to get the installer to recognize and use the drives attached to the
> controller. So, if the driver is proprietary, then it may be coded specifically
> for certain RH modified kernels, but those modified kernels are available in
> source form from RH's own FTP site in the form of a .src.rpm

Yeah, the problem might be that the binary drivers expect a certain
pre-compiled kernel. That would still work on debian, but it's a pain and
sucks if you need to recompile.

If the cards are using proprietary drivers ask them if they have any cards
that use Free Software drivers.

3ware and other IDE RAID controllers make their driver code available.

ciao,

der.hans
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