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

[Patrick_Boyd at Dell.com]

That's a correct assesment of our support for 64-bit Oses. 

As for opensourcing our management tools I'm afraid that portions of
those are the IP of our Vendors and are disclossed to us under NDA, our
hands are as tied as yours are. And there really are some bad things
that non-root level users could do if they had access to some of the
source code in the RAID management libraries.

Patrick Boyd
Dell Storage Software Engineer
(512)728-3182


-----Original Message-----
From: linux-poweredge-bounces at dell.com
[mailto:linux-poweredge-bounces at dell.com] On Behalf Of John Hodrien
Sent: Wednesday, July 05, 2006 9:54 AM
To: linux-poweredge-Lists
Subject: RE: aacraid style monitoring for megaraid2,use
DELL_megaraid2.monitoring.tar.gz

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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