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Exibit A:
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:

Unique \U*nique"\, n.
A thing without a like; something unequaled or unparalleled.
[R.]

Exibit B:
Quoted from http://dandelion.com/:
"your source for a truly unique gift idea: personalized baby blankets."

Your Argument:
"He sounds like kind of a homo to me. Anyone who thinks that personalized baby blankets are a great gift needs help. I guess Leonard needed it, but didn't get it. Oops."

For the sake of the argument, we'll assume you are using thinking that "personalized baby blankets are a great gift" as a sign of homosexuality.

"Where is this headed," you ask. Well, Leonard did not state that he thought personalized baby blankets were a great gift. So, he must not be homosexual.

In other words:
That troll sucked. Try again some time.

Leonard will be missed by many. He was Dandelion Digital's sole proprietor. He also has a page about his Linux acheivements, especially his SCSI drivers which are commonly used today.

Leonard will be missed by many. He was Dandelion Digital's sole proprietor. He also has a page about his Linux acheivements, especially his SCSI drivers which are commonly used today.

The trip down hardware failure started with a hand full of Redhat 7.2 machines. Fresh installs. The install uses 2.4.7-10-smp. The site using that kernel have been complaining about the VM, random lock ups, bad disk I/O, the list goes on. One persons solution. Upgrade the kernel. Sounds ok with me, but Kernel Panic's aren't.

The hardware is one of the no longer made VA Linux^H^H^H^H^HSoftware 3500's. A Quad Xeon, 4G RAM, and a Mylex DAC960PRL. Not all have the same Mylex, some have eXtreamRAID 1100 (DAC1164P). All have the same problem. Kernel Panic! We can't install the latest 2.4.9-13-smp kernel from Redhat. Fine compile our own from source. The same problem even when we do the compile. Tried the latest -ac patches and have visited Dandelion s page and followed the steps there. Visited kernel mailing lists searching for people with similar problems. Afew from Nov. but not much of a follow-up. Its driving the Admins nuts not to mention the developers of the websites that now have some unstable hardware/software combination.

Right now were stuck with 2.4.7-10-smp from Redhat.. I would love to get rid of the Mylex and get another RAID controller. Maybe a ICP-Vortex Now if only I could get the higher ups to agree with me...

Yea I work for OSDN but my opinions are my own

I recently built a server using a Serverworks 370DL3 motherboard, and a Mylex ExtremeRAID 1100 DAC960 card. On the driver page for the card, it reports an issue with the DAC960 firmware that can cause the card to stop responding under high load. Could DELL be using rebranded MYLEX cards? It might be worth a try to see if the MYLEX firmware would work on the DELL card. Check out http://www.dandelion.com/Linux/DAC960.html for more info.

The CD was a (bootable) Redhat 5.2 Installation Cd with the Mylex driver included to ease installation on new systems.

Since the driver is now included in Redhat 6.0 (as well as a few other distributions) the cd is no longer required or usefull.

BTW, the driver for the mylex controllers is not yet part of the stanard linux kernel, it can be downloaded as a kernel patch from http://www.dandelion.com/Linux/DAC960.ht ml.