Server setup.

[Yeormom]

If you are not using hardware raid, change it in the bios to act as a SCSI controller Kobaz. There are no known issues with any PERC controller on Linux, as hundreds of thousands of Dell PowerEdge servers do run Linux. You most likely had a configuration issue.

[Andrew80k]

Originally Posted by Yeormom

If you are not using hardware raid, change it in the bios to act as a SCSI controller Kobaz. There are no known issues with any PERC controller on Linux, as hundreds of thousands of Dell PowerEdge servers do run Linux. You most likely had a configuration issue.

Actually, some of the PERC cards are problems under Linux on Dell. The PERC 5/i was particularly notorious for having issues. There are some driver updates that were supposed to help, but they didn't always.

EDIT: I should add that not ALL perc cards are issues and not even all PERC 5/i's had issues. But there are a greater number than others. Also, I never checked if they had issues on Windoze too.

[Kobaz]

Thanks Andrew. I couldn't remember which model it was. And there were no problems with it under Windows, it was a quite nice card for the price.