Best OS for an old PE2550?

[J. Epperson]

On Tue, August 14, 2007 00:13, Brian Hughes wrote:
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> On Aug 13, 2007, at 6:01 PM, Alan Hoang wrote:
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>> Brian:
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>> I would recommend CentOS 5.0 for the PowerEdges and you shouldn't run
into any problem.
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> Thanks for replying, I've been too busy lately to reply to all the other
people that responded with their suggestions. The fall semester starts
next week! So, thanks everyone for your suggestions and comments.
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> I tried FreeBSD first but found it wasn't to my liking. I did end up
downloading and installing CentOS , which seems to work very well. I've
got one PE2550 at home, the others need to be picked up from the donor.
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> Now I just need to find a FC HBA that will work with the FibreVault
units we were given.
>

I can vet that CentOS EL5 works without a hitch on 2550 machines with the
native Adaptec RAID, have it running for months now.  The native
fibrevault external interface was actually copper I think, fiber was an
add-on.  Depends on which.  I think the QLA2200 is ok for the fiber, no
idea about copper.