SuperMicro 5013

[Joel Jaeggli]

On Sun, 21 Aug 2005, John Rowan wrote:

> Well, the lack of a workable RAID with Linux, problems with (primary 
> application) Pick reporting illegal activation after cold starting the server 
> and lack of redundant hot swap power supplies has the SuperMicro / Visionman 
> back in the box waiting for an RMA.    I think it was designed more as a 
> Windows machine and as an afterthought claimed to run Linux. 
> Anyone have a suggestion for a quiet, cool running machine, hot swap hard 
> power supplies and hard drives with hardware RAID (preferably compatible with 
> RH9 as primary app will not be supported under any release of Fedora Core)?

there is no motherboard I'm aware of with an ata or sata hardware 
raidcontroller. (I have a couple compaq ml380's with compaq smart array 
controllers on the motherboard but those are scsi).

> The budget allows for only $1,400 US.

serial-ata is not well supported in redhat-9. rhel-3 actually has quite 
good serial-ata support for something still built on the 2.4kernel.

>

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