RE: Dell-Oracle-Linux: Anyone else run this...because its not working for us!

Hi

We run this config and had problems with the machine spewing "disk errors" and stopping .. I turned off RAID and run a split SCSI backplane config now.. much faster and very reliable

Regards
Streve
At 3:25 PM -0500 16/11/05, david hill wrote:
>Hi Chris
>
>I have a bunch of different Dell servers all running RHEL 3, running
>nice and smooth, no hiccups whatsoever
>A few 2650's, 2600's, and 1750's
>
>Running RAC with 9.2.0.6, with about a TB worth of DB's
>
>All the servers came with the PERC 4, It sucks. But I tried a few
>different raid controllers on RHEL, they were all pretty bad
>
>My advice get a SAN, and with RHEL 3 it super easy to boot from san,
>diskless servers.
>Eliminate the PERC and megaraid all together.
>
>David Hill
>Oracle DBA
>
>
>

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