(From Dell's Description)
# High performance delivered by up to dual 3.2GHz Intel Xeon processors with Hyper-Threading Technology, and up to 8GB of 266MHz ECC DDR SDRAM memory.
# ServerWorks GC LE Chipset with 2:1 memory interleaving for fast memory access and a five peer PCI bus architecture for uncompromising I/O throughput.
# High availability delivered by hot plug redundant power supplies (optional), hot swappable hard drives and integrated dual channel RAID with 128MB of battery backed-cache.
Install of Slackware was a bit of a circus and we found it was easier to build for the host on another machine and stuff the image to the new drive, after which we booted from the Slackware CD.
Broadcom Tigon Gigabit Ethernet drivers loaded up all purty but we never tested the interface at the gigabit speeds.
SCSI Drivers are LSI Logic "Fusion MPT device support" in your kernel config.
Drive performance is deceptively fast on the U320 bus.
Have not yet played with lm_sensors enough to know if the chipset is supported.
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