mcleodnine

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Install can be a bother if you have not yet installed the Compaq diagnostics/setup tools and the RAID array manager.

With 2.4.22 I have noticed that the onboard SCSI controller (not the RAID card) performs much better with the ncr53c8xx (~= 14MB/s) driver rather than the sym53c8xx one (~=3MB/s!). At least that was my experience with the attached Seagate 10K Cheetahs.

Juno D

When doing any distro for the first time you will need to point vmlinuz to how much RAM you have. Eg:

mem=exactmap mem=640K@0 mem=255M@1M
#This is my code because I only have 256M of RAM

dilweed

Review:
I purchased the system with Red Hat 9 installed on it with no problems (4 x 4.3 gig drives as a 15 gig drive and 768 megs of RAM).

Plea for help:
I'm now attempting to put Solaris 9 and Slackware-current on it (not at the same time). I want to reconfigure the RAID array, but I don't think I have the RAID manager tools installed. When I hit F10 at the prompt it says software not available. I think it's just a striped set right now, but I want to go to RAID 5. Does anyone have any information about accessing / configuring / installing the RAID manager for the SMART 2/P Controller?