Hi Henry,
We have rought ly 40 quad-core PE-1950s and all are running 64-bit SL4.5
without any problem. I always do kick-start installation, so can't think
of any reason why conventional CD-installation would be a problem. SATA
and NIC controller support were pretty much out of the box. The most
recent ones we bought about 2 months ago. I don't have the hardware
detain handy at the moment but I dig that out for you you ike.
Cheers,
Santanu
> 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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