SuperMicro 5013

Craig White craigwhite at azapple.com
Mon Aug 22 04:01:03 UTC 2005


On Sun, 2005-08-21 at 20:23 -0400, John Rowan wrote:
> John Rowan wrote:
> 
> > One of my customers was tired of the noise levels from the Proliant 
> > 6400R in his office.  He wanted something that would be quieter but 
> > also faster.   TigerDirect sent him an email saying the 3GHz 
> > SuperMicro 5013 1U was the device he longed for.  He ordered the 3GHz 
> > 1Gigabyte RAM dual 120 gigabyte SATA disk unit since the web site said 
> > it worked with Linux.    I tried installing Fedora Core 4 which said 
> > it was successful but upon rebooting the machine it hung at a GRUB 
> > prompt for 30 seconds then rebooted.  I reverted to RH 9.0 but it 
> > doesn't have drivers for the SATA RAID controller.  I also tried SuSE 
> > Pro 9.1 but that also does not have drivers for this RAID controller.  
> > I've done 9 installs with  FC4, RH9 or SuSE Pro 9.1 today all 
> > failing.  FC4 has drivers for the controller but after installation it 
> > fails to boot.  RH9 and SuSE do not recognize the drivers I've 
> > downloaded from SuperMicro.com.  Does anyone know where I  can get 
> > drivers for RH9 or SuSE, or why the machine hangs for 30 seconds after 
> > reboot with a GRUB prompt on the screen?
> >
> >
> Well, the lack of a workable RAID with Linux, problems with (primary 
> application) Pick reporting illegal activation after cold starting the 
> server and lack of redundant hot swap power supplies has the SuperMicro 
> / Visionman back in the box waiting for an RMA.    I think it was 
> designed more as a Windows machine and as an afterthought claimed to run 
> Linux.  
> 
> Anyone have a suggestion for a quiet, cool running machine, hot swap 
> hard power supplies and hard drives with hardware RAID (preferably 
> compatible with RH9 as primary app will not be supported under any 
> release of Fedora Core)?  The budget allows for only $1,400 US.
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Just a suggestion - you can probably pick up some used Dell PowerEdge
4300/4400 with those features AND have RH 9 compatibility. The newer
hardware will not ever be certified with such an old distribution. You
might look around - try ebay, etc.

Craig




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