I don't work for Dell, but my boss received a similar email from our Dell rep.
Bond Masuda wrote: > For a second there, I had to check if the post was done on April 1st or > not! I'm glad to hear it, but it would certainly be nice if a Dell > employee here could confirm this and make an official statement. > > I've already had 3 customers who decided to buy blackbox servers from a > local server builder instead of Dell after they found out about the > drive compatibility issue. It was their deciding factor. > > > > On Tue, 2010-04-13 at 17:33 +0800, Stephen Wong wrote: > >> Great! So, I won't insist to have PERC6/i but H700 / H800 will be >> purchased and be accepted when the new firmware is released! >> >> Stephen WONG >> >> >> >> On Tue, Apr 13, 2010 at 5:03 PM, Stephan van Hienen >> <[email protected]> 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. >>>> >>> Stephan >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> 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 >>> >>> >> _______________________________________________ >> 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 >> > > _______________________________________________ > 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 > > _______________________________________________ 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
