On Tue, Aug 03, 2004 at 12:54:52PM +1000, Adrian Bolzan wrote:
Hi,
I am preparing to buy a new HP server, a HP DL320G2, and would like to
install Woody onto it.
The questions I have relate to the:
- On-board NICs, given on the HP site as "Two NC7760 PCI Gigabit Server
Adapters (embedded)"
- the ATA RAID controller, given as "Integrated Dual Channel Ultra ATA/100
Adapter with Integrated ATA RAID 0, 1"
- video, given as "Integrated ATI RAGE XL Video Controller with 8-MB SDRAM
Video Memory"
Will woody with the standard bf2.4 kernel detect the NIC's and RAID
controller?
Video is no problem, NICs require a newer kernel, and the RAID is
hopeless (no open-source driver, no real raid (some kind of software
raid), and impossible to disable. There is a binary-only driver that
works with some redhat and suse kernels.
I wouldn't recommend this machine.
Frank