On Wed, 16 Jun 1999, Shaun Hedges wrote:
> Hi, we have recently ordered a Dell PowerEdge 6300 server with the following
> configuration:
>
> quad pII-450 Xeon processors
You'll be lucky to get these. Intel stopped making them (I've been told)
... Maybe Dell still has a stock of them, but I couldn't get them from
independant suppliers when I went to build my own server a few weeks ago.
I had to re-order Xeon III 550's ... (Which I can't get to run at 550,
only 515 because I recon the motherboard (ASUS) can't hack it. Even though
it says it can...
> 2 gb ram
> 3 x 9 gig lvd scsi hd's
> perc2 raid controller
I went for 4 x IBM 18GB drives for my configuration. Motherboard has
on-board dual channel adaptec chip. Running (Software) RAID 5, kernel
2.2.6 (Debian 2.1) So far so good...
> Can 2.2.x kernels handle 2gb of ram properly? What about the quad xeon
> processors?
The 2GB Q seems to have been answered - I havn't had a problem with the
twin Xeons I'm using so far.
Good luck!
Gordon
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