Last week I get Dell PowerEdge 2500 model
with this configuration: 1xP3 1.26Ghz, 512MB RAM, 4x36GB hot-plug SCSI HDD,
3 x 300W redundant power supply.
Here is my results…
AIC-7899 work OK - add Vendor and Device id "Fsys.aha8scsi
aha8scsi -V0x9005 -D0xcf "
All disks is connected to 1x6 backplane so Fsys see hd0-hd3 and one pu0.
There is posibility to add doughter board on 1x6 backplane to get 2x3
configurated backplane - I don’t have
it because I did’t know for this solution when I order PC.
This is good if you try to build RAID disk fileld. This week I will get ICP
Vortex RAID controler
and all disk will bee connected on this controler.
I see somewhere in documentation that this option (2x3 backplane) is’t
supported under Linux.
Intel Pro card also work ok with Net.ether82557. In start I have some
problems with speed
butt when I change IRQ-s in BIOS and add one PCI 4xRS242 card inside this
works great!!!
I don’t know if I have IPSec - I think not butt it must be compatibile
with 82557
For tape device I don’t have any info because we will use an Tanderberg
stramer unit.