| gabriel rosenkoetter on Tue, 26 Nov 2002 12:30:05 -0500 |
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I'm trying really hard to like this new x335, but it's not playing nicely. In shades of MCA, IBM ships the system with a non-standard single I/O connector (so that you can stack a bunch of systems without VGA, and two PS/2 cables dangling off each, they say)... and doesn't include the breakout to VGA andf PS/2 by default. Then their rack mount is physically impossible to install in an industry standard four-post rack (and APC NetShelter). Getting past all that, though, and finally getting the system up and running, I find that my vendor ignored my very careful instructions about disk partitioning, gave a ridiculous 20 GBs to /usr, and left /home (where I actually *want* the space) starved at about 5 GBs. So, time to blow it away and reinstall. But booting up with RH Advanced Server 2.1's CD-ROM and loading the block device driver disk included with it still leaves me sans hard disk. The disk is on the other side of an LSI Logic SCSI card that's doing hardware RAID 1. Its BIOS screen claims it's an "LSI 1030", which doesn't even match the format of the entries for LSI in Red Hat's hardware compatibility list, and gets next to no hits (in English, anyway) from Google (though maybe I didn't peruse that avenue carefully enough just yet). Obviously *some* kind of RH has drivers for this controller, since there's one installed on the box when it came to me. It hadn't even occured to me that my vendor might have *also* ignored my "install Advanced Server 2.1, please" request and just used 7.3 or 8.gag_me.0. I'm about to go check on that now. So, any thoughts? This is all a little bit disappointing after the Red Hat Road Tour was touting their partnership with IBM, and advertising xSeries servers on the side of the damn bus... -- gabriel rosenkoetter gr@eclipsed.net Attachment:
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