Hi Troy, Aldo,

On Fri, 31 Aug 2007, Troy Dawson wrote:

> Aldo Saavedra wrote:
>> I'm wondering if anybody has installed scientific linux on a DELL 2900 .
[...]
>> My main worry is whether if drivers exist for its RAID controller called 
>> PERC5/i
>> in SL3 which is the current distribution in our cluster or we would have to
>> upgrade to SL4.

> Scientific Linux 308 - won't see the disks.
> I highly recommend moving up to at least SL4.  Drivers for SL 3 just arn't 
> there.  When SL 309 comes out, that will be the last SL3 release, and so no 
> more driver updates for the installer after that.

Although it was no small miracle when it happened, a driver for the PERC5 
was added to TUVEL3 last year, in time for the hardware release. I don't 
remember the exact update, but this controller works quite well with SL 3.0.8.

But I agree that using SL5 or at least SL4 would be much better, if it's 
possible.

- Stephan

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