On Tue, Nov 13, 2001 at 01:16:09PM -0600, Ian Marchak wrote: >Hi All, > >A recent addition to the office, a Dell PowerEdge 500SC is slotted to be used >as a file server for a group of engineers moving in w/ us. > >The machine came to us w/out an OS and I am considering (strongly) implimenting >Linux, as this machine will never be part of the corporate network so it >doesn't have to be a corp spec box. > >Dell themselves have tested RH 7.1 w/ this hardware and have included a few >errata regarding this, nothing serious, how to enable the Travan drive, how to >enable DMA100, no problems, maninly tuning tips.
Travan drives have a nasty habit of failing after about a year of daily backups. Bill -- INTERNET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Bill Campbell; Celestial Software LLC UUCP: camco!bill PO Box 820; 6641 E. Mercer Way FAX: (206) 232-9186 Mercer Island, WA 98040-0820; (206) 236-1676 URL: http://www.celestial.com/ A fake fortuneteller can be tolerated. But an authentic soothsayer should be shot on sight. Cassandra did not get half the kicking around she deserved. -- R.A. Heinlein _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list Archives, Digests, etc at http://linux.nf/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
