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inherited a Dell Poweredge thingy... is the scsi supported? -Reply
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jeffrey Waters)
Thu May 14 12:57:46 1998
Date: Thu, 14 May 1998 12:19:22 -0400
From: Jeffrey Waters <Jeffrey.Waters@rich.frb.org>
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Hi, can't speak for Linux, but I do have some experience with the PERC
(Power Edge Raid Controller), now for the bad news it is a Dell
proprietary device (like those old nasty DSA cards). You may get some
info out of dell on these but I would not look for much help. I know that
they support SCO on these systems, you may want to look in that
direction as well.
On a technical side note, I supported a 4100 and a 6100 both with the
PERC's and had nothing but trouble out of them, one was Intranetware
and the other was NT 4.0. The biggest problem I had was if I drive went
bad it would take out the entire raid set, not a good thing as we were
using RAID 5 for disaster recovery reasons, the boxes were both 7 X 24
devices. We also had drives being marked as bad that really were not.
Jeff
>>> Jeff Wiegley <jeff@la.usweb.com> 05/13/98 09:48pm >>>
My company just acquired a Dell PowerEdge 4100/300 and it has
a RAID controller included. I can't figure out which brand
of controller it is. The information displayed in the BIOS
just says "PowerEdge RAID" the two chips on it are an Intel 960
processor and a Symbios 53C770 chip. Its a Dual channel controller
and I was wondering if Linux (either v2.0 or v2.1) kernels support
this controller at all; either in RAID mode just as a standard
SCSI controller?
Any thoughts on this beast would be appreciated.
Thanks,
- Jeff Wiegley
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Date: Wed, 13 May 1998 22:48:31 -0400
From: Jeff Wiegley <jeff@la.usweb.com>
To: linux-scsi@vger.rutgers.edu
Subject: inherited a Dell Poweredge thingy... is the scsi supported?
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My company just acquired a Dell PowerEdge 4100/300 and it has
a RAID controller included. I can't figure out which brand
of controller it is. The information displayed in the BIOS
just says "PowerEdge RAID" the two chips on it are an Intel 960
processor and a Symbios 53C770 chip. Its a Dual channel controller
and I was wondering if Linux (either v2.0 or v2.1) kernels support
this controller at all; either in RAID mode just as a standard
SCSI controller?
Any thoughts on this beast would be appreciated.
Thanks,
- Jeff Wiegley
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