From: "Nigel Kendrick" nigel.kendrick@petdoctors.co.uk Reply-To: nigel.kendrick@petdoctors.co.uk To: <centos@caosity.org.> Subject: [Centos] CentOS newbie just saying hello Date: Tue, 14 Dec 2004 14:53:44 -0000

Hi folks,

Just a quick hello having installed CentOS on my first box - an Acer Altos G310 (P4 2.8GHz, 768MB RAM with 70GB + 300GB storage. The 300GB unit is a SATA disk which I hope to software (hardware!?) mirror - if I'm in for any major fun mirroring a SATA drive do let me know now - I think hardware mirroring is not an option (yet!?) but I haven't checked this out completely.

Maybe http://3ware.com/products/serial_ata.asp I don't have SATA hardwares. How is everyone else using them hopefully without problems? I would like hardware SATA RAID in future as well. Anyone like 3ware cards for this? Stable?

This isn't my first *nix/linux install - I go all the way back to Daisy Dnix, Xenix, SC..er..you know who..unix, via VAX VMS and CP/M on various systems. I have a couple of RH9 boxes that will need updating soon and I'm also running one other Acer G310 server on..er..White Box..(sorry!) so this is kind of a 'keeping my options open' thing!

I get impression that Centos development process is better compared to Whitebox because community working on OS is better than one person.

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