P520

[Rob Bruder]

I have had some issues with buggy QLogic HBA drivers, but other than 
that, Red Hat 4 runs just fine on P5 series hardware.

Mad Unix wrote:
> Am planning to install Linux on 4 Power PC (IBM-P5) attached to FC-SAN
> storage.
> The servers will Apache HTTP/PHP, Java and Oracle
>
> Would this work on PowerPC,out of your experience need your input.
>
> I ma planning to install it on the following HW (4xP520systems) 
> attached to
> SAN
> with the following HW spec
> -P520
> -Dual 2.1 GHz P5+
> -1.9 MB L2 / 36 MB L3
> -16GB ECC RAM
> -2x Internal Disk 73
> -RAID Dual channel ultra320 SCSI int. controller
> -Redhat 4 or Redhat 5 EL
> -SAN DS4700 Express Model 70 2GB cache
> -14x146.8GB 10k
> -Redhat EL 4 or 5
>
>