Lunix1618 <> scribbled on Tuesday, September 16, 2008 12:45 PM: >>>> Our department's planning to buy a refurbished Dell Poweredge 2850 >>>> running dual-xeons and with a rather big raid array (8x 146GB). >>>> >>>> *My* plan is to install CentOS on this machine and I'd like to hear with >>>> you guys if there are any gotchas' doing this. >>>> >>>> My main concern is the ability of CentOS to recognise the raid-controller >>>> of the Dell and run a raid5-array as well as drivers for the onboard >>>> NICs. >>>> >>>> >>> I am running Dell 2950 III and no issue with hardware recognization of >>> CentOs (5.2 Final) >>> >>> The one small thing is I can not extend the RAID volume because at the >>> beginning time we only have 03 HDD now when we buy new HDD we recognize >>> that RAID controller (PERC 6/i) doesn't support add new HDD to existing >>> volume :( so only a choice is rebuild it. >>> >> >> Fast reply, thx. 8-) >> >> No hw-issues sounds good! >> >> Do you mean extending the array from within CentOS or at firmware level at >> boot-time? >> > for both, because the RAID controller doesn't support. that is not > CentOS issue. Ah, ok, Thx for the clarification. >> I doubt however this'd be an issue with us, since the machine comes fully >> loaded from start with eight disks and we're not likely to add any more, >> new or bigger, except in the case of a disk-failure. >> > Yeah, you rite and lucky :) I'm bound to be lucky after all the bad luck I've had recently with hardware... 8-}
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