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Re: Fidre channel array



On Sun, Dec 07, 2008 at 07:38:47AM +1300, Fred Zinsli wrote:
 
> Current information tells me that support for this card stopped after
> either kernel 2.4 or 2.2

I hate it when linux does that.

> 
> Looks like I may have to roll my entire install back to a really old
> version of deb or simply install RHEL5 or earlier. Something I wasn't
> planning on, especially since the latest version of deb seems to be the
> only linux distro that installs and runs properly on my old compaq
> servers. On that basis I moved all my servers to deb (from windowz or FC).
> This is the only server with Fibre. I am currently exploring the
> possibility of changing the card. The arrays attached to the cards are old
> series 4100 boxes.

On my old boxes, I run OpenBSD.  They seem to continue to support old
hardware, and it runs very well.

Doug.


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