Is the Dell Poweredge 6300 OK with Linux?

[Jordan_Hargrave at Dell.com]

Neil,

  Currently you won't be able to use all 4Gb of RAM with Linux, it's limited
to (variously I've heard), 1, 2,or 3Gb only.. the rest of the memory is
reserved for PCI memory mapped addresses.  The SMP support in 2.0.x kernels
is pretty flaky, but it seems to be running solidly on the 2.1.121 kernel.

   --jordan

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	White, Karen 
> Sent:	Friday, September 18, 1998 6:51 PM
> To:	'Neil Conway'; aic7xxx at FreeBSD.ORG; linux-smp at vger.rutgers.edu
> Cc:	White, Karen; Hargrave, Jordan; Merkin, Stan
> Subject:	RE: Is the Dell Poweredge 6300 OK with Linux? 
> 
> Current versions of linux will not run on the Dell 6300.  Doug Ledford is
> putting
> in a change for me in his aix7xxx driver so the driver will run.  The code
> in the kernel that
> scans the pci bus is being changed as we speak to support scanning
> multiple
> buses.  The 6300 has 3 and the current code does not scan all of the
> buses.  
> So, we (Dell) are currently working on getting Linux to run on the 6300
> and determining
> what kernel changes need to be made to make it work.
> 
> Karen
> 
> 	-----Original Message-----
> 	From:	Neil Conway [SMTP:nconway.list at ukaea.org.uk]
> 	Sent:	Friday, September 18, 1998 6:04 PM
> 	To:	aic7xxx at FreeBSD.ORG; linux-smp at vger.rutgers.edu
> 	Subject:	Is the Dell Poweredge 6300 OK with Linux? 
> 
> 	Subject says it...  Any people using them yet ?  Any SCSI or SMP
> 	problems ?  I'm considering a purchase...
> 
> 	The config I'm looking at is anything up to the full spec of
> 4x400MHz
> 	Xeon, 4GB RAM.
> 	The price for this config with 512kB cache CPU's and entry level
> disks
> 	is only about $20k which doesn't seem too awful...
> 
> 	Neil
> 
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