On Wed, 16 Jul 2008, Santanu Das wrote:
> Henry Nebrensky wrote:
> > Has anybody bought similar off-the-shelf servers and had success getting
> > SL4 to work?
>
> I always preferred Dell PE-1950s and that's what we probably gonna
> order for all our head nodes. We are already using a quad-core Intel /
> 8Gig [memory] PE-1950 for our SE [X86_64 SL4.5] for a while now and I'm
> pretty happy with it.
Does that support SL4 in a just shove-the-CD-in and install fashion, or
did you need to mess about compiling kernel modules beforehand?
To clarify my question a bit, I've found it difficult on some sites
(Dell/Viglen/HP) to work out which network card and SATA controller they
use in their machines, to check for SL support.
Is a basic SATA controller now part of "the chipset"?
Thanks
Henry
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