[ale] Will a Compaq Proliant 5000 run Linux?

[Ron Tenny]

Purchaced a new Proliant 5000 with SCO Openserver 5.0.2
in April.  Our International organization is moving to 
Linux and we would like to convert to Redhat 4.2 to
be in sync with them.  Also the dizzing list of 
updates ahead of us to get to the SCO 64 bit version
could be painful and costly.

Anyone got any experience this hardware under Linux, we
are especially concerned about the RAID controller being
supported.  Here is the output of hwconfig -h

device          address    vec  dma  comment
======          =======    ===  ===  =======
fpu                -        13   -   type=80387
serial        0x3f8-0x3ff    4   -   unit=0 type=Standard nports=1
floppy        0x3f2-0x3f7    6   2   unit=0 type=135ds18
console            -         -   -   unit=vga type=0 12 screens=68k
parallel      0x3bc-0x3be    7   -   unit=0
kbmouse        0x60-0x64    12   -   type=Keyboard mouse
pci           0xcf8-0xd00    -   -   am=1 sc=1 buses=3
eisarom            -         -   -   eisa (1.3.0)
ida0         0x6000-0x601f   9   -   PCI slot=5 units=1 Compaq IDA/SMART (rev 5.12)
adapter      0x7000-0x70ff  10   -   type=cha ha=0 id=7 PCI slot=0 geo=A wid=16 Compaq Fast-SCSI-2 (rev 5.12)
csmu               -         -   -   Compaq SCSI-2 Management driver (rev 5.12)
cled               -         -   -   Compaq ProLiant Storage System (rev 5.12)
pcibios            -         -   -   PCI BIOS (2.16), Hardware Mechanism 1
cpqw               -         -   -   Compaq Wellness driver (ver 5.12)
crom               -         -   -   Compaq rom driver (rev 2.0)
cnet         0x5000-0x500f  11   -   unit=0
ONboard       0x240-0x24f    5   -   unit=0 mem=000D0000 npanels=1 nports=32
ONboard       0x210-0x21f   15   -   unit=1 mem=000D0000 npanels=1 nports=32
ONboard       0x270-0x27f    3   -   unit=2 mem=000D0000 npanels=1 nports=32
tape               -         -   -   type=S ha=0 id=2 lun=0 bus=0 ht=cha
disk               -         -   -   type=IDA0 unit=0 cyls=2055 hds=255 secs=32
Stp-0              -         -   -   Vendor=ARCHIVE Product=4326XX 27871-XXX
cd-rom             -         -   -   type=S ha=0 id=5 lun=0 bus=0 ht=cha

Regards, Ron

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Ron Tenny, Computer Coord      |OM, "Bringing Hope to the
Operation Mobilization, Inc.   |    Peoples of the World"
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