Centos 4.0 on SC440 SATA

[eclark]

  Sorry for this rant, but this is something I have felt for some time that 
needed to be said, and no better forum than the linux PE mailinglist..

  Regarding the comment about Dell being in the business of selling hardware, 
that evidentally came from a private email. The Dell rep who wrote it is free 
to justify his stance as he sees fit. 

  I thought he had sent it to the list. In any case, despite being, in my 
opinion not the best decision, I can at least understand Dells perspective. 
There has been for some time now a push to move off the 24 kernel to 26, and 
it is a wise decision fiscally for Dell to push new hardware. However, Dell 
has changed raid controllers and SATA controllers each and every server 
release. In three servers (2650,2850,2950), we are seeing three different 
raid controllers, and two different buses. The nics have changed from 
broadcom, to intel, back to broadcom (intel gige -> broadcom gige). I have 
been forced to sit and watch as slowly our monolithic kernel has had to bloat 
to ensure cross server compatibility. Even in a single generation bound (750 
-> 860) there are compatibility issues. While part of the blame does indeed 
lie with our aging method of handling our network, you simply can not 
discount Dells hardware revisionist policies. I strongly feel that if Dell is 
going to insist on pushing hardware like this and causing compatibility 
issues, then they should at the very least release mainline kernel modules 
for their hardware.
   

On Thursday 15 March 2007 08:37 am, J. Epperson wrote:
> On Thu, March 15, 2007 08:21, eclark wrote:
> > Assuming the SC440 is the sata controller in the 2950s, Dells official
> > response was "we are in the business of making hardware, not being
> > concerned with actual support".
>
> The part in quotes is an official Dell response?  You don't attribute a
> source--who said that?
>
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