On Tue, 13 Apr 2010, Stephan van Hienen wrote: > I saw the following post on the dell forum : > > http://en.community.dell.com/support-forums/servers/f/906/t/19324790.aspx > >> Dell will no longer prevent customer use of non-Dell hard drives >attached to PERC H700 and H800 controllers on our 11th generation of >PowerEdge servers. A Q2FY11 PERC Firmware Update is planned to allow >non-Dell hard drives to be used with these controllers.
I found the Q2FY11 estimate to be rather strange, thinking that it was odd to announce a firmware update a year in advance. But apparently Dell starts their fiscal year in February, so we're currently in Q1FY11, meaning the update should be due in the next 2-3 months. Of course, now I have to question a company whose fiscal year is off of real years by 11 months... (maybe this is more commonplace than I realize?) -- Shane Williams Coordinator of Information Technology & System Administrator School of Information, University of Texas at Austin [email protected] - 512-471-9471 _______________________________________________ Linux-PowerEdge mailing list [email protected] https://lists.us.dell.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-poweredge Please read the FAQ at http://lists.us.dell.com/faq
