Re: [Asterisk-Users] Re: What is the best Dell Machine for Asterisk?

2006-01-02 Thread Administrator TOOTAI
on another boot partition if first failed. Craig - Original Message - From: Louis-David Mitterrand [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: asterisk-users@lists.digium.com Sent: Monday, January 02, 2006 1:17 AM Subject: [Asterisk-Users] Re: What is the best Dell Machine for Asterisk? On Wed, Dec 28, 2005

Re: [Asterisk-Users] Re: What is the best Dell Machine for Asterisk?

2006-01-02 Thread Mike Fedyk
Administrator TOOTAI wrote: Craig Guy a écrit : Are you using raid for performance or redundancy? Software raid is nice except when the drive that fails is the one with your boot partition on it. I guess you could always tftp boot the kernel or something. If you're using GRUB, fallback

[Asterisk-Users] Re: What is the best Dell Machine for Asterisk?

2006-01-02 Thread Louis-David Mitterrand
On Mon, Jan 02, 2006 at 01:01:44PM -0800, Mike Fedyk wrote: Administrator TOOTAI wrote: Craig Guy a écrit : Are you using raid for performance or redundancy? Software raid is nice except when the drive that fails is the one with your boot partition on it. I guess you could always

Re: [Asterisk-Users] Re: What is the best Dell Machine for Asterisk?

2006-01-02 Thread Mike Fedyk
Louis-David Mitterrand wrote: On Mon, Jan 02, 2006 at 01:01:44PM -0800, Mike Fedyk wrote: Administrator TOOTAI wrote: Craig Guy a écrit : Are you using raid for performance or redundancy? Software raid is nice except when the drive that fails is the one with your boot

Re: [Asterisk-Users] Re: What is the best Dell Machine for Asterisk?

2006-01-02 Thread Administrator TOOTAI
Mike Fedyk a écrit : Administrator TOOTAI wrote: Craig Guy a écrit : Are you using raid for performance or redundancy? Software raid is nice except when the drive that fails is the one with your boot partition on it. I guess you could always tftp boot the kernel or something. If

Re: [Asterisk-Users] Re: What is the best Dell Machine for Asterisk?

2006-01-02 Thread Mike Fedyk
Administrator TOOTAI wrote: Mike Fedyk a écrit : Yes, and if you don't get to GRUB, what do you do? Lilo is also able to boot from different disks (MBR) I very much prefer a Linux software raid setup myself, but you are depending on the quirks of your BIOS if your primary boot drive

Re: [Asterisk-Users] Re: What is the best Dell Machine for Asterisk?

2006-01-02 Thread Mike McMullen
I am talking about SW Raid also. Now, what happens when your BIOS fails to read the MBR from the first mirror and doesn't try the second because it sees the first? I see this problem, and I do not know how to fix it without either replacing the BIOS or installing a PCI disk controller that

[Asterisk-Users] Re: What is the best Dell Machine for Asterisk?

2006-01-01 Thread Louis-David Mitterrand
On Wed, Dec 28, 2005 at 04:02:00PM -0800, William Boehlke wrote: The 830s are nice but limited because they do RAID on a card and have but one suitable PCI slot. So you can have an interface card or RAID, but not both. Linux software raid is, in our experience, much better than any hardware

Re: [Asterisk-Users] Re: What is the best Dell Machine for Asterisk?

2006-01-01 Thread Craig Guy
] To: asterisk-users@lists.digium.com Sent: Monday, January 02, 2006 1:17 AM Subject: [Asterisk-Users] Re: What is the best Dell Machine for Asterisk? On Wed, Dec 28, 2005 at 04:02:00PM -0800, William Boehlke wrote: The 830s are nice but limited because they do RAID on a card and have but one

[Asterisk-Users] Re: What is the best Dell Machine for Asterisk?

2005-12-29 Thread Steven
PROTECTED] On Behalf Of C F Sent: Tuesday, December 20, 2005 5:22 PM To: Walt Reed; Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion Subject: Re: [Asterisk-Users] What is the best Dell Machine for Asterisk? Last time I checked Dell does support Linux. http://configure.us.dell.com/dellstore