1)You are stuck to a handful of kernel, and Promise take forever to release drivers for new releases of Red Hat. God help if you don't run Red Hat.
2)When you lose a drive you system crashes!! (Yes I've tested this.)
You are better off using the controller as a cheap ide controller, and running software raid under linux. Just be sure to use lilo instead of grub as grub doesn't understand software raid very well.
There are binary drivers for Linux, and partial source drivers that do raid. Of course they are a pain much like Promise's binary only drivers. Highpoint actually recommends you run the card in JBOD (Just a Bunch Of Disks)mode under Linux, and use the md (software raid) driver. Keep in mind all of these cards do raid in the driver not in hardware.
You've not read the LKML very much. Linus is famous for telling people they are nuts, and their code sucks. He tends to tell it like he sees it. This goes all the way back to an infamous flame war with the Creator of Minux durning the early days of linux. On the other hand he doesn't tend to go out of his way to flame someone.
Interestly redhat's kernel-source rpm doesn't include the ia64 code unless you have a ia64 system. That why it's a kernel*i386.rpm instead of a noarch rpm;-)
In seconds? I've dealt with RH support directly, and with customer who were dealing with RH support. I've never had AS support beat me to a solution, and every time my solution has been different. My solution was prefered by the customer. They generally know what they are doing, but it ain't seconds. Unless of course it's something any RHCE, or decent linux sysadmin would know.
For the most part no. Now that IBM is claiming that SCO is in violation of the GPL. The validity of the GPL is very much in question. It is not a central issue currently, but things could change depending on how much IBM's counter suit depends on the gpl.
For example if IBM can find proof that SCO knew that IBM had put parts of their AIX code in linux. While SCO was at the same time shipping that same code under linux. Then the validity of the GPL become very important.
This sounds like you are running a kernel that does not do dma on your ide drives. Try a newer kernel. Most linux distros have a 2.4.20 kernel. The ide support in 2.4.21 may be a beter choice if you like the idea of compiling your own kernel.
What he may have meant is they put 2.4.21pre or 2.4.21rc in their kernel. All of the linux vendors do this. If you extract a Red Hat kernel src rpm. You generally find that there is a pre or ac patch applied.
You folks realize that AS currently consists of RH 7.2 with a few updates. AS is still using a bloody 2.4.9 kernel!!! Go look at the srpms on redhat's site.
There are a handfull of pacakges that aren't in 7.2, but you can download them. This will change with the next release, but right now it's pretty much RH 7.2.
It's all about the support, and certifications people!!!
Uhhhh right. Have you ever heard of the kernel-smp, or the kernel-bigmem packages? Every redhat in the past few year has supported more than 2 cpu's and large amoutn of memory.
rpm -qip kernel-bigmem-2.4.20-8.i686.rpm
Summary : The Linux Kernel for machines with more than 4 Gigabyte of memory. Description: This package includes a kernel that has appropriate configuration options enabled for Pentium III machines with 4 Gigabyte of memory or more.
rpm -qip kernel-smp-2.4.20-8.i686.rpm
Summary : The Linux kernel compiled for SMP machines. Description: This package includes a SMP version of the Linux kernel. It is required only on machines with two or more CPUs, although it should work fine on single-CPU boxes.
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1)It was good enough 8 years ago.
2)I've got nothing better to do than fuck with my.fwm*rc file
3)My desktop doesn't look enought like ass yet.
4)I've only got 12M of memory.
5)What the hell X only holds up my xterms, and mozilla.
I've wanted Tivo like abilities for my radio for years.
1)The ability to replay the last few minutes. What did the DJ say that song was called? Damn that song kicked ass I want to hear it again!!!
2)The ability to fast foward past songs I hate. Tivo currently records a 2-4 of hours of MTV2, and VH1 per week. I generally watch only 5-10 minute of out of hour. (Mainly as it's 95% crap)
That's such an idealized view of chickens. I've seen Roosters beat the shit out of hens. Of course I've also seen the reverse.
I grew up on a farm. The chickens were by far the meanest nastiest creatures I've ever met. I've seen chickens repeatedly attack an injured chicken. You literally have the remove the injured chicken. Otherwise they kill it, and then eat it.
And before you say that's because they were couped up in a small space. They weren't.
This goes back a an infamous posting. Involving Portman naked and petrified.
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All science, and technology is built on prior theories, experimentation and research. Putting more information out there is the best to speed our understanding of the world. As well bring new technologies into being.
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Promise's binary driver sucks. Why you ask:
1)You are stuck to a handful of kernel, and Promise take forever to release drivers for new releases of Red Hat. God help if you don't run Red Hat.
2)When you lose a drive you system crashes!! (Yes I've tested this.)
You are better off using the controller as a cheap ide controller, and running software raid under linux. Just be sure to use lilo instead of grub as grub doesn't understand software raid very well.
There are binary drivers for Linux, and partial source drivers that do raid. Of course they are a pain much like Promise's binary only drivers. Highpoint actually recommends you run the card in JBOD (Just a Bunch Of Disks)mode under Linux, and use the md (software raid) driver. Keep in mind all of these cards do raid in the driver not in hardware.
Adaptec's 1200A is Highpoint card with a slightly different bios on it. Heck I've heard you can flash it with highpoints firmware.
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You've not read the LKML very much. Linus is famous for telling people they are nuts, and their code sucks. He tends to tell it like he sees it. This goes all the way back to an infamous flame war with the Creator of Minux durning the early days of linux. On the other hand he doesn't tend to go out of his way to flame someone.
Interestly redhat's kernel-source rpm doesn't include the ia64 code unless you have a ia64 system. That why it's a kernel*i386.rpm instead of a noarch rpm;-)
Red Hat is very flexible in cases like this. They'd rather have you pay 1/2 list. Then have you do it yourself.
Just have one of your team keep wondering out load what prevents you from buying 1 copy, and installing on all your systems;-)
Actually it's 7.2. Check out the redhat logos srpm on any RH mirror. It's the same size.
In seconds? I've dealt with RH support directly, and with customer who were dealing with RH support. I've never had AS support beat me to a solution, and every time my solution has been different. My solution was prefered by the customer. They generally know what they are doing, but it ain't seconds. Unless of course it's something any RHCE, or decent linux sysadmin would know.
A court could rule that the GPL is non binding. Or rule in such a way that you would not have legal recourse to prevent close sourced versions.
For the most part no. Now that IBM is claiming that SCO is in violation of the GPL. The validity of the GPL is very much in question. It is not a central issue currently, but things could change depending on how much IBM's counter suit depends on the gpl.
For example if IBM can find proof that SCO knew that IBM had put parts of their AIX code in linux. While SCO was at the same time shipping that same code under linux. Then the validity of the GPL become very important.
Programers debug comments? I thought they were for confusing the guy they hired to replace you.
This sounds like you are running a kernel that does not do dma on your ide drives. Try a newer kernel. Most linux distros have a 2.4.20 kernel. The ide support in 2.4.21 may be a beter choice if you like the idea of compiling your own kernel.
/dev/hde /dev/hde: /dev/hde /dev/hde: /dev/hde /dev/hde: /dev/hde /dev/hde:
root@somewhere RPMS]# hdparm -d 0
setting using_dma to 0 (off)
using_dma = 0 (off)
[root@somewhere RPMS]# hdparm -t
Timing buffered disk reads: 64 MB in 31.28 seconds = 2.05 MB/sec
[root@somewhere RPMS]# hdparm -d 1
setting using_dma to 1 (on)
using_dma = 1 (on)
[root@somewhere RPMS]# hdparm -t
Timing buffered disk reads: 64 MB in 1.75 seconds = 36.57 MB/sec
[root@somewhere RPMS]#
Damn it you're going the wrong way!!! We want more caffeine.
What he may have meant is they put 2.4.21pre or 2.4.21rc in their kernel. All of the linux vendors do this. If you extract a Red Hat kernel src rpm. You generally find that there is a pre or ac patch applied.
You folks realize that AS currently consists of RH 7.2 with a few updates. AS is still using a bloody 2.4.9 kernel!!! Go look at the srpms on redhat's site.
s e/ 2.1AS/en/os/i386/SRPMS/b /redhat/linux/updates/ent erprise/2.1AS/en/os/SRPMS/
http://ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/linux/enterpri
http://ftp.redhat.com/pu
There are a handfull of pacakges that aren't in 7.2, but you can download them. This will change with the next release, but right now it's pretty much RH 7.2.
It's all about the support, and certifications people!!!
Uhhhh right. Have you ever heard of the kernel-smp, or the kernel-bigmem packages? Every redhat in the past few year has supported more than 2 cpu's and large amoutn of memory.
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rpm -qip kernel-bigmem-2.4.20-8.i686.rpm
Summary : The Linux Kernel for machines with more than 4 Gigabyte of memory.
Description
This package includes a kernel that has appropriate configuration options
enabled for Pentium III machines with 4 Gigabyte of memory or more.
rpm -qip kernel-smp-2.4.20-8.i686.rpm
Summary : The Linux kernel compiled for SMP machines.
Description
This package includes a SMP version of the Linux kernel. It is
required only on machines with two or more CPUs, although it should
work fine on single-CPU boxes.
1)It was good enough 8 years ago.
.fwm*rc file
2)I've got nothing better to do than fuck with my
3)My desktop doesn't look enought like ass yet.
4)I've only got 12M of memory.
5)What the hell X only holds up my xterms, and mozilla.
I've wanted Tivo like abilities for my radio for years.
1)The ability to replay the last few minutes. What did the DJ say that song was called? Damn that song kicked ass I want to hear it again!!!
2)The ability to fast foward past songs I hate. Tivo currently records a 2-4 of hours of MTV2, and VH1 per week. I generally watch only 5-10 minute of out of hour. (Mainly as it's 95% crap)
That's such an idealized view of chickens. I've seen Roosters beat the shit out of hens. Of course I've also seen the reverse.
I grew up on a farm. The chickens were by far the meanest nastiest creatures I've ever met. I've seen chickens repeatedly attack an injured chicken. You literally have the remove the injured chicken. Otherwise they kill it, and then eat it.
And before you say that's because they were couped up in a small space. They weren't.
I loved Sarah Zettel's Kingdom of Cages, and Reclamation.
I find James Alan Gardner generally worth a read.
I really liked Expendable and Ascending. Commitment Hour is fun if wierd read.
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No the point is that I've heard last year's music. I'm bored with it. Maybe in a few year I'll be interested in it.
This goes back a an infamous posting. Involving Portman naked and petrified.
Newton put it best. "If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of Giants"
All science, and technology is built on prior theories, experimentation and research. Putting more information out there is the best to speed our understanding of the world. As well bring new technologies into being.
Actually a good many kernel developers have issues with RMS. That doesn't mean they want him banned.