Fedora and Intel EM64T Xeon Processor based machine

[Joel Jaeggli]

On Tue, 19 Oct 2004, ranjeet walunj wrote:

> Hi group.
>
> I'm sorry for the lame question without posting any facts.
> Yes we have purchased the dell poweredge 1850 with dual XEON and two
> SCSI HDD.
> Yes before purchasing we checked that it is supporting RHEL3.
>
> But we just gave a thought that Fedora might get installed on it and we
> will be able to save some money.
>
> But we want FEDORA to install on it with hardware RAID.
> We have tried installing from dell's bootable cd where it can only
> support windows 2003 or RHEL3.
>
> Can someone put some light on where we can search HOWTO's or document
> about installing it with hardware RAID ?
> we will RTFM if we get some pointers.
> (We dont have any expertise with RAID.)
>
> On Dell's linux discussion list someone spurted that S/W RAID is better
> than Hardware RAID on Poweredge 2850 (we have 1850). According to my
> knowledge this cannot be hold true. Can someone throw some extra 
.light on this?

what's you knowledge? assuming your controllers don't have a bandwidth 
bottleneck linux-software-raid will generally be faster than hardware 
(0/1/5). better however is a multi-dimensional problem.

>
> Sorry again for putting mail without facts.
>
> Regards,
> Ranjeet Walunj
>

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