[SLL] Hardware Recommendation

[Jarod Wilson]

On Thu, 2008-06-05 at 14:03 -0400, Dave Pfaltzgraff wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> After around 10 years of providing reliable service, I'm afraid that my
> home server may be dying on me. Configured back then with Slackware ?.?, I
> had implemented software RAID using some 3G SCSI drives. Since this system
> is used to backup critical files, the RAID function is important. My PC
> vendor is suggesting I go to a system with an Intel DQ35JO motherboard
> because it has hardware RAID capability.

Doesn't explicitly say one way or another in the manual, but I'm going
to go out on a limb here and call bullshit on your vendor. Chances are
pretty slim that's actually hardware RAID and not BIOS-driven software
pseudo-RAID. It works under Linux, but for anything more than RAID1, I'd
almost rather just do software RAID...

> I'm not sure which chip sets are
> used and subsequently wether or not I would have Linux support.

That board should work just fine with any recent kernel. Intel is pretty
good about getting their latest and greatest chipsets supported in the
kernel even before they ship 'em. We[*] get Intel pre-release hardware
all the time, largely to make sure it works under Linux before it ships.

[*] I work in the enterprise kernel group at Red Hat.



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Jarod Wilson
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