aacraid style monitoring for megaraid2, use DELL_megaraid2.monitoring.tar.gz

[John Hodrien]

On Wed, 5 Jul 2006, David Hubbard wrote:

> From: John Hodrien
>>
>> On Wed, 5 Jul 2006, Ronan Mullally wrote:
>>
>>> I don't want to.
>>
>> But understand that from Dell's point of view, that's a weak answer.
>
> What's weak about it?  Dell advertises that their hardware
> supports 64-bit linux, this person wants to run just 64-bit
> linux without some compatibility garbage and has come to the
> realization that no, they don't fully support 64-bit linux
> because their management software doesn't support it and
> that's because it's not open source and the company that
> writes the device drivers is lame.  This is the same
> crap we had to deal with with the old PERC2 on the Dell
> 2xxx-series servers when there was only a proprietary Adaptec
> aacraid driver that was tied to specific kernel versions.
> What's weak is Dell's support for 64-bit linux.

My reading of it is that Dell support 64bit versions of distros such as
redhat.  Current version of 64bit redhat supports 32bit binaries.  If those
32bit binaries work properly on a 64bit system using only provided software
from Dell and Redhat then that's support.  Maybe I'm wrong, but I'd assumed
Dell don't claim to support arbitrary 64bit linuxes.

If they don't function correctly on 'supported' system then that's another
matter.

jh

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