> From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Matt > Simmons > > Details are at http://www.standalone-sysadmin.com/blog/2010/04/dell- > reverses-position-on-3rd-party-drives/
Here, they had a firmware which detected and prevented 3rd party drives. I'm also glad they reversed this policy, because although I don't generally recommend 3rd party, I think you should be allowed to choose it if you wish. Intentionally blocking 3rd party drives sounds a little bit anti-competitive to me. > If what Ski is saying is true, and I have absolutely no reason to > believe that it isn't, then that's even worse than a drive lockout. > Try running a server in your testing stack on the same amount of RAM > you used in production 2 years ago. I don't think he said you can't upgrade memory. It's just that the memory he bought doesn't work, and is unsupported. The only question that remains is: Why? Is it nonfunctional because "standards" aren't so standard? (Something I've experienced many times.) Or is it nonfunctional because Dell actively prevents it from working? I don't know the answer, and I won't believe anybody saying they do, unless they're able to say how they dug down and performed a root cause analysis and identified the code in Dell firmware which does a string match to find "Dell" in the mfgr string of the ram, or something like that. _______________________________________________ Tech mailing list [email protected] http://lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tech This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators http://lopsa.org/
