On Wed, 20 Dec 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> First let me say thanks for the e-smith product. As someone who has
> used most of the appliances and or software in this field for some
> time, e-smith is a breath of fresh air (I have used the Qube,
> Netwinder, NetMax, and home spun solutions using Redhat and Webmin).
I'm glad you like it.
> Anyway, since all the emails on the list today seem to be about raid,
> I thought I would throw in my question. I remember reading on the
> message boards that someone at e-smith was going to try out one of
> 3ware's IDE RAID controller cards to see how it worked with e-smith.
> The drivers are open source and I believe they are in the 2.2 kernel
> series (which BTW which kernel does 4.1 beta2 use 2.2.16, or higher?).
2.2.16-22 (from RedHat 7.0).
> I checked back and I did not see a response as to the success.
>
> My first question, did it work,
I don't know whether we were sent a dud or not, but we can't even get past
the BIOS screens :-(
> and would e-smith support a system on this controller?
We'd want to know that it worked before we did that. We'll continue to
investigate as time permits. As you can understand, we are focused on some
other things at the moment.
I'd say that the status is "unknown, but probably not at this stage".
> Second, I recently found what I believe to be a great motherboard to make
> turnkey e-smith systems. The Tyan Tiger 200 (s2505) board is a dual socket 370
> board with dual Intel ethernet, onboard ATI video, and integrated Promise
> Technology FastTrak100 IDE RAID. I checked Promises website and they have
> drivers out for Redhat 6.2/7.0 in both uniprocessor and SMP modes. The
> installation procedure they outline seems simple enough. Any thoughts?
Sounds great! Please send me one and I'll try it out!
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Charlie Brady [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Phone: +1 (613) 368 4376 or 564 8000 Fax: +1 (613) 564 7739
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