On Fri, 2006-12-08 at 09:48 -1000, Camron W. Fox wrote:

Alle,

I was wondering if anyone is using 4.X on any Fujitsu Primergy hardware and what type of experience they've had. I know that FJ provides separate drivers for all the supported hardware that are supposed to be RHEL4.X compatible, but I have my doubts.

I had one time to setup CentOS 4.2 on a bunch of Econel 200 (5 servers iirc). I had to modify the driver disk for the integrated sata LSI- Megaide raid 1 controller to work with CentOS 4.2 (because of a mismatch between CentOS 4.2 i586 kernel used during setup and RHEL 4.2 using a i686 kernel during setup : see http://www.arrfab.net/? topic=tutorials&id=centosdd) . I know that such controller is a 'fakeraid' adapter (and i told this to the customer but he wanted absolutely to use this one ...). On the other hand it's true that after having installed with this module i was able to look at the raid status without having to install third-party app (just a cat /proc/megaide/status iirc gave me the status). I also had to enter the Bios to force it to initialize the integrated Broadcom nic otherwise on a cold startup the machine frozed ... These boxes are running for several months now for this customer but i know he has just ordered several new ibm servers ... maybe because of my advice ... :o)