Sorin at Gmail wrote: > Lunix1618 <> scribbled on Tuesday, September 16, 2008 11:35 AM: > > >>> 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. >> > > Fast reply, thx. 8-) > > No hw-issues sounds good! > > Do you mean extending the array from within CentOS or at firmware level at > boot-time? > for both, because the RAID controller doesn't support. that is not CentOS issue. > I doubt however this'd be an issue with us, since the machine comes fully loaded > from start with eight disks and we're not likely to add any more, new or bigger, > except in the case of a disk-failure. > Yeah, you rite and lucky :)