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Originally Posted by Yeormom
Well, the term Linux is a bit broad these days. I've never seen any problems with PERC controllers on Redhat, CentOS, Oracle EL4, ESX, or Debian-flavor systems. All we've used at the office over the past couple years has been PowerEdge 2850s and 2950s servers running Linux. We have found bugs in the system BIOS (not to be confused with the PERC bios) which have required new releases from Dell to fix. :(
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Indeed, linux is pretty broad. We use PowerEdge 2850's and 2950's. And our issues have only been on the 2850's using Redhat. I understand from researching the issue is that the PERC cards are flashed to solve the issues, and that in some cases this doesn't solve it. It doesn't seem to have anything to do with the flavor of Linux as the issues that I have seen have been on different distros. It seems like it is related to how the particular interface on the PERC card reacts with the linux driver, but it has been a LONG time since I've done any driver development on Linux so can't say for sure.
We have yet to solve our issues as it is only a problem for us on boot up and we rarely boot the machines. Unfortunately for us, the problem machines are in a remote data center and require manual intervention when booting. We are looking at putting an IP KVM in there but it hasn't happened yet.