[TriLUG] Need advise.

[Jon Carnes]

Stay far away from the low-end of the PowerEdge series (especially the
1300's).  The quality of the 1300's is poor, and the disk subsystems are
proprietary.  They say Adaptec, but don't be fooled, you get a stripped down
version of a full adaptec - with just enough differences that you need a
special driver.  The killer is that the normal driver *almost* works.  Just
enough that it drives you crazy!

Oh, and did you know that you can't use an IDE drive in the low-end
PowerEdges.  The proprietary motherboard has irq's and io's all over the
place without heeding any standards, and they just stomp right on top of any
normal settings for IDE controllers.

Jon Carnes
----- Original Message -----
From: "Kevin - The Alchemist - Sonney" <alchemist at darkcanvas.com>
To: <trilug at trilug.org>
Sent: Tuesday, October 23, 2001 9:48 AM
Subject: Re: [TriLUG] Need advise.


> On Tue, Oct 23, 2001 at 08:43:51AM -0400, Vestal, Roy L. spoke thusly:
> > I will be setting up our first Linux server here at work. (YEAH!). It
will
> > be an Oracle server, and I need suggestions.
>
> Having recently done an oracle on linux install, I can talk about this
> a little.
>
> > Any suggestions on the basic setup of the server?  Any recommendations
on
> > white papers on Oracle and it's requirements?
>
> Make it *BIG*. Lots of disk, lots of RAM. Oracle is a pig when it
> comes to RAM and Disk. But it seems pretty good with CPU, supprisingly
> enough.
>
> Read the Oracle Docs carefully, then go hunting for other docs. If I
> hadn't lost my bookmark list, I'd have a plethora for you.
>
> Use RedHat or SuSE.
>
> You may have to install it a few times to get it right. I know I did.
>
> Good luck, and if you need any help when the system gets here, wel,
> you know where to find me *grin*
>
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