Hi Winnie,
Well we have some experience of modern hardware which works, and some
older stuff which still doesn't! You'll need to run SL3.0.8 (or 9 when
it ships). There was some traffic about compatibility lists on the
SL-users list a while back (see attached).
When buying, we lean on vendors to prove RHEL or SL works out of the
box. Not so easy when one is buying a single box.
My advice would be to stick to systems using mainstream boards and
chipsets since that's what matters for compatibility, though that's not
always a guarantee of success. The one SATA chip I know of to avoid is
a Marvell chip on a Supermicro board. I'll look it up...
Cheers,
Martin.
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Martin Bly +44|0 1235 446981
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Testbed Support for GridPP member institutes
> [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Winnie Lacesso
> Sent: 01 July 2007 17:29
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Anyone know newer hardware NOT compat with SL3-32bit?
>
> Dear All,
>
> We'll buy new hardware for a new lcg-CE box which currently
> is only certified on SL3 32-bit; we'd like CE to "just work"
> with the drivers already in SL3.
>
> Has anyone done any research into newer hardware (particularly SATA
> controllers) that ISN'T compatible with SL3 32-bit?
>
> That seems the sort of information that GridPP probably has
> available somewhere for everyone in GridPP to reference, but
> I can't find it.
> There doesn't seem to be any mention of anything like it in
> ROLLOUT, TB-SUPPORT or HEPSYSMAN list archives.
> (pointers welcome)
>
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