Netfinity Info

["Daniel E. Markle" <syntax@ashtech.net>]

I was wandering over the entries at the Free Software Bazaar Page and noticed
the folowing:

          The NetFinity (and PC Server 330) servers from IBM are becoming
          increasingly popular, and unfortunately Linux can't be installed in
          these machines - at least using the ServeRAID adapter on-board
          available on them - because there isn't a driver for it. I've looked
          over the entire IBM site to find out if there wasn't source code for
          the adapter (as it happened with the IBM LanStreamer Ethernet
          Adapter), to no avail. 

          (I know that I could build a software RAID system with the
          on-board Adaptec adapter. In the NetFinity case, however, this
          leads to 2 problems: 1) physical installation - normally these
          systems come with a bay where you insert your HD's and this
          limits the available space to normal drives, and the bay cannot be
          used with any controller except ServeRAID itself. Praise IBM. ;-P
          2) I would lose the capability of Hot-Swapping a dead HD because
          of the problems described in 1).) 

Al, would this be problem for us if we got that server?

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Daniel E. Markle
syntax@ashtech.net

Linux - The OS of the future.
Windows - Still using that legacy OS?
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