Well Debian didn't support that chipset natively when I installed it on the
box in question Matt :-(
just took a different woody boot disk and an extra driver.
Also needed a decent new kernel package with the mptbase and mptscsi
drivers.
according to the IBM website, the redhat installer and kernels support that
chipset from a fair while ago.
seems to run very fast now its installed, but installing it was a bit of
bitch.
Also the Broadcom onboard 10/100/1000 nic on those boxes (IBM x335) can use
the tg3 driver or a different one.
The tg3 driver seemed to work ok in preliminary testing.
I think the Fusion chipset has some nice ideas, but I am not sure why they
decided having a network card and scsi controller on the same chip. Would it
make that much difference? besides, the Fusion nic support in linux is a bit
problematic, and according to the IBM readme, only useable as a module.
Dave
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From: "Matt M" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> heard about it..). The IBM gear I've used lately all uses the LSI Fusion
> MPT Ultra320 chipset (which even does RAID1 natively!), and seems very,
> very nice, though I've yet to be able to put Linux on one of these puppies
> (Netware 6 and Win2k so far) - I think all the big names are using this
> chipset now. It may even be the one LSI is using on the RAID adapters. I
> tend to lean towards researching hardware very carefully, but then buying
> from a big name, to try and save myself from the blame game ("oh no, it's
> definitely XYZ's equipment.. couldn't be ours.."). Just my $0.02.
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