FW: [ILUG] Pre configured boxes

[Jakma, Paul]

> If yes - are they any good ?  What about RAID controllers, etc . . . ?
> If no - does anyone else (within Ireland or possibly UK) do the same ?

Dell ships with Adaptec AHA based raid controllers now. Unsupported by linux
unfortunately. AFAIK the older AMI megaraid controllers are no longer
available.

I'm a bit biased obviously, but Linux will install effortlessly onto Compaq
SMARTarray based servers. Driver was written and is maintained by CPQ. Plus
you get a nifty 'ASR' thingy = serial console support. Ie you can remote
boot the server over a modem, watch linux boot and login via ttySx.

regards,

Paul Jakma.