LTO-3 Autoloader Recommendation

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Dan Adams

Thanks for the eval. Gateway recommends I use separate U160 or U320
SCSI cards. My backup server OS and Veritas BE 10d (EVAL) currently
sits on mirrored 80GB SATA I hard drives.
 
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Folkert Rienstra

Dan Adams said:
Thanks for the eval.
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Gateway recommends I use separate U160 or U320 SCSI cards.
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So avoid Gateway, obviously.

The only bottleneck you may possibly experience is your U320 array
connected to your U160 controller and that rather depends on what type
and/or what number of arrays you have there and the capability of the
external raid controller (speed wise) and the SATA drive specifications.

And none of that has anything to do with the tape.
 
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Odie Ferrous

Torbjorn said:
Steve Cousins said:
That's "odd" -- FC3 should be pretty close to centos-4 kernel wise. What's
the MPT driver version? Mine reports 3.02.18.
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obviously to update the mpt driver. Maybe the kernel too I guess. Maybe
I should upgrade to FC4 since FC3 is frozen at this kernel. I wonder if
yum can update from FC3 to FC4 for me. It never stops! I'll start with
the driver.
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yum upgrade (not update) can to some extent be used to upgrade between
some versions of Fedora Core, but it's quirky and complicated. Not
really recommended, I've done the easier FC2 to FC3 upgrade that way
but not FC3 to FC4 which is apparently quite a bit quirkier.

Fedora Legacy will release new kernels for FC3, but that's likely to
only be security related fixes as compared to the last FC3 kernel.
Also, I haven't tested this but a FC4 or even FC5t2 kernel plus a few
other RPMs (kernel-utils+?) *MAY* work (I've seen FC2 kernels on FC3
machines *and* vice-versa, not sure if anyone tried it with FC4+
kernels on FC3).

But really, you would probably be best of with either upgrading (to
FC4 or something else) or respinning a FC3 kernel with a newer MPT
driver (rebuilding from SRPM with new driver), but the last
alternative requires a bit of know-how.

http://www.fedoraproject.org/wiki/YumUpgradeFaq
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???????? And the Linux community are trying to persuade everyone that
Linux is easier to install, manage, and use, than Windows?

The mind truly boggles.


Odie
 
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