Sorin at Gmail wrote: > Hi all, > > Our department's planning to buy a refurbished Dell Poweredge 2850 running > dual-xeons and with a rather big raid array (8x 146GB). > > *My* plan is to install CentOS on this machine and I'd like to hear with you > guys if there are any gotchas' doing this. > > My main concern is the ability of CentOS to recognise the raid-controller of > the Dell and run a raid5-array as well as drivers for the onboard NICs. > I am running Dell 2950 III and no issue with hardware recognization of CentOs (5.2 Final) The one small thing is I can not extend the RAID volume because at the beginning time we only have 03 HDD now when we buy new HDD we recognize that RAID controller (PERC 6/i) doesn't support add new HDD to existing volume :( so only a choice is rebuild it. HTH, > Any feedback on this is appreciated. > > TIA. > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos >