RE: just curious about Debian vs Redhat
i would suggest the ami megaraid controller, it works good, is cheap,
supports onboard cache and has decent drivers in both 2.0 and 2.2 i hear
that mylex makes some damn good drivers for linux too ..but from what i've
read their stuff is real high end and prob $$$
nate
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On Thu, 28 Oct 1999, Adam Greene wrote:
> I have to set up a RAID 5 Tower and I want to run Linux (it's a dual Xeon,
> Intel GX computer) and I was wondering which company currently offered RAID
> 5 solutions with source code drivers (or included in the latest stable
> kernel).
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: aphro [mailto:nate@firetrail.com]
> Sent: October 27, 1999 3:16 PM
> To: William T Wilson
> Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org
> Subject: Re: just curious about Debian vs Redhat
>
>
> On Wed, 27 Oct 1999, William T Wilson wrote:
>
> > DPT raid controller drivers, I know, are distributed in source form. I
> > cannot think of any reason they would work with a RedHat kernel and not a
> > Debian kernel, as RedHat doesn't (AFAIK) currently modify the kernel.
>
> well,
>
> http://www.dpt.com/techsup/sr5drv.htm#LINUX
>
> they got boot and root disks for redhat 5.2/6.0, and binary modules
> (dpt_i2o.o dpt_i2o_smp.o) ..i havent checked their other
> controllers(yet) just those caught my attention when a friend of mine said
> he was having problems with that DPT card under redhat.
>
> > Even if you do use a binary driver, it ought to work with any kernel of
> > the version range it was designed to work with, RedHat or otherwise.
>
> it should, but it doesn't always. my recent install of vmware (the
> latest) had modules for my kernel version but they failed to
> load. luckily the program was able to successfully compile modules and
> load em. and it also is bad because take the DPT raid drivers for linux
> 2.2.5. chances are not that great that it will work on 2.2.10 ..2.2.13
> ..it may be possible, but not nearly as good as having the source to
> recompile for another kernel rev.
>
> > I don't agree here either. Someone has to adopt glibc first. If no one
> > adopts it, no one will work the bugs out and it will never be ready for
> > use.
>
> it just seemed they adopted it WAY in advance of anyone else, be it debian
> or slackware (or suse?? i dont remember) and it caused me a lot of
> trouble, just my opinon though.
>
> > RedHat always maintains the current and previous major version of their
> > release, at least for security and major bugfixes. If you aren't ready to
> > move up to the new version, just use the previous one.
>
> my problems was more related to 3rd party stuff that people developed
> around the new libc. (same with glibc2.1) mostly with binary
> distributions. i try to compile most everything but some stuff just won't
> compile and using a binary is the last resort option...
>
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