Status on Poweredge Dell with Raid

[Benjamin Suto]

I know this is off-topic to the list, but someone asked me to make the
information that I garnered about Dell Poweredge systems available to
the list.

So, here it is. 

Basically, after a search on dejanews, I came across this article:

http://x5.dejanews.com/getdoc.xp?AN=430135686&CONTEXT=917266543.1696071777&hitnum=19

In it, someone states that there are drivers for the PERC RAID
controllers, but there are no drivers available for the PERC/2 Single
channel PCI system (the faster 80 MB/sec one).  So, basically, if you
buy a Poweredge server for Linux, you need to buy the PERC controllers
with it, and not PERC/2.

Debian Boot Disks for Debian 2.0 Installation:
http://www.debian.org/~adric/aic7xxx/

Red Hat 5.2 has the drivers built in.  However, there is a caveat:  For
Red Hat installation, you need to specify, in the module options,
aic7xxx=no_probe.  You cannot select Autoprobe.  Otherwise the system
will hang, since it probes in the PCI space of other adapter cards.  I
got this information from the following dejanews post:

http://x5.dejanews.com/getdoc.xp?AN=430207456&CONTEXT=917266543.1696071777&hitnum=6

Thanks for all of your help.  Hopefully, life will be a little bit
easier for someone else looking for this information.

I will be making a (simplistic) web page with just the information above
available at http://allie.alliedtours.com/~edgy/poweredge.html if anyone
is interested.

Ben