Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo on Dell PowerEdge 2600 / 2800? AMI / LSI MegaRAID driver?

2007-12-23 Thread Steve Dommett
On Thursday 20 December 2007, Stroller wrote: ... I was expecting something similar to when I've hotplugged SATA drives on my desktop machine. What controller is in that, please? Does it do hardware RAID, or is it just a regular SATA controller? I've done it using both the onboard

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo on Dell PowerEdge 2600 / 2800? AMI / LSI MegaRAID driver?

2007-12-20 Thread Stroller
On 20 Dec 2007, at 07:26, kashani wrote: Stroller wrote: Just a quick question to see if any of the list members are using Gentoo - or any other Linux distro for that matter - on Dell PowerEdge 2600 or 2800 servers? ... I used Redhat, Fedora, and Gentoo on 2550, 1650, 2650, 1750, 1850,

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo on Dell PowerEdge 2600 / 2800? AMI / LSI MegaRAID driver?

2007-12-20 Thread Stroller
On 20 Dec 2007, at 07:31, Steve Dommett wrote: On Thursday 20 December 2007, Stroller wrote: I maintain a few Poweredges, I think mostly 2950. Just yesterday we swapped a drive on the Fusion MPT SAS controller. We were prompted to take the drive out of service by an email from

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo on Dell PowerEdge 2600 / 2800? AMI / LSI MegaRAID driver?

2007-12-20 Thread kashani
Stroller wrote: On 20 Dec 2007, at 07:26, kashani wrote: I used Redhat, Fedora, and Gentoo on 2550, 1650, 2650, 1750, 1850, and 2850 PowerEdge servers ... Blimey! You obviously know your stuff. So how do you find Gentoo measures up to Redhat / Fedora on these machines? Never had an

[gentoo-user] Gentoo on Dell PowerEdge 2600 / 2800? AMI / LSI MegaRAID driver?

2007-12-19 Thread Stroller
Just a quick question to see if any of the list members are using Gentoo - or any other Linux distro for that matter - on Dell PowerEdge 2600 or 2800 servers? A site I manage has had from new a 2800 running Windows, which we're quite happy with (the 2800, that is, not Windows ;). We really

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo on Dell PowerEdge 2600 / 2800? AMI / LSI MegaRAID driver?

2007-12-19 Thread kashani
Stroller wrote: Just a quick question to see if any of the list members are using Gentoo - or any other Linux distro for that matter - on Dell PowerEdge 2600 or 2800 servers? A site I manage has had from new a 2800 running Windows, which we're quite happy with (the 2800, that is, not Windows

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo on Dell PowerEdge 2600 / 2800? AMI / LSI MegaRAID driver?

2007-12-19 Thread Steve Dommett
On Thursday 20 December 2007, Stroller wrote: I haven't done much digging yet, but thought a quick show of hands here might save some time. It looks like the SCSI hot-swap / RAID controller uses an AMI / LSI MegaRAID driver which is (?) part of the main kernel - anyone know if that does status