hardware question: Intel entry server board SE7221BK1 & Fedora Core 3

From: Alexander Dalloz (ad+lists_at_uni-x.org)
Date: 03/15/05

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Date: Tue, 15 Mar 2005 03:00:02 +0100

    Hello all!

    The advantage of such a nice community base is, that we can share
    hardware experiences - I still have in mind a community feeded database
    of compatible and non-compatible hardware for Fedora .
    I am now in the situation to build and setup a new server system for a
    client very urgently as the old server hardware seems to die. So I would
    like to hear that the Intel entry server board I now had a close look at
    is no problem for the current Linux kernel and Fedora in specific:

    http://www.intel.com/design/servers/boards/SE7221BK1-E/index.htm

    Does anybody of you run this board with Fedora Core 3? Any feedback is
    welcomed. So especially is SATA problem free with the chipset - the RAID
    function seems to be BIOS supported software/driver RAID only and is no
    must - and how about the lm_sensors support? I found that the National
    Semiconductor LM96000 chip should work with the LM85 module, while for
    the National Semiconductor* PC87427 I didn't found anything. Remote
    observation of fan radiation and temperatures is needed.
    Red Hat Linux Enterprise 3.0 is supported, but that always means the
    "costs" to need a specific kernel for the provided drivers & tools. As
    security update kernel come out more frequently than such driver updates
    are provided such dependency on non open source / GPL software is hardly
    acceptable with a system connected to the net 24/7.

    Any experience based input is apprechiated. Maybe a suggested alternate?
    Who prefers to stay anonym may mail me personally :)

    Cheers

    Alexander 

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