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Re: Support for Compaq Smart-2 Array Controller
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jos Vos)
Wed Oct 30 07:33:21 1996
From: Jos Vos <jos@xos.nl>
To: redhat-list@redhat.com
Date: Wed, 30 Oct 1996 13:31:36 +0100 (MET)
In-Reply-To: <199610291654.KAA01301@babba.cu-online.com> from "Otto Hammersmith" at Oct 29, 96 10:54:28 am
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> > We have a customer running a Linux distribution delivered by us on
> > about 10 Compaq Prosignia 300 and 500 systems all over the world.
> ^^^
> > And every new system where Linux is put on seems to be working fine.
> > The kernel includes (w.r.t. SCSI) just the NCR53c7,8xx driver.
> > The systems all use a SCSI-disk, SCSI-tape (HP-DAT), and the standard
> > CD-ROM, and they all work fine from the very beginning.
>
> [...]
>
> Just out of curiosity, how old are those servers? I'm wondering if
> the one I got was just bad.
The first one we used was bought about november 1995, I guess, the last
one a couple of weeks ago.
> I jut won't ever buy Compaq hardware again... nothing personal, I just
> would rather know what I'm getting, and be sure that the manufactuer
> didn't try something "clever" with standard part.
The situation of our customer: they want to be able to tell their
offices all over the world "buy brand X model Y and put our tape in it"
(and it should work fine by default). They thought this would work for
Compaq and until now (...) they didn't have any compatibility problems.
So, any local PC clones (like we always buy our own components and build
our own systems) are not acceptable in that situation.
Does anyone have suggestions for world-wide available PC's (brands, models)
that could be used in these kind of situations?
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