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Re: [suse-amd64] Need help finding a supported SCSI card.
- From: Andi Kleen <ak@xxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 5 Feb 2005 12:29:03 +0000 (UTC)
- Message-id: <20050205122902.GA8438@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Of course it might not make sense economically for SuSE to go
> after home PC harware issues, but server side that would be a great
> service to customers I think and may be a way to gain
> some new customers for SLES.
The problem is that a device can appear to be working for simple
stuff, but still be quite broken (fall over with any significant
load or have other problems). That is actually not that uncommon.
The only way to catch these is to run longer stress tests. That is
what the SUSE Linux hardware certification does.
Also it would still not help with the problem the original poster
had - that devices are filled under different names in the hardware
database. Unfortunately device vendors tend to be quite creative
at giving even identical cards new names, or sometimes even changing
the hardware silently without changing the name :/
-Andi
> after home PC harware issues, but server side that would be a great
> service to customers I think and may be a way to gain
> some new customers for SLES.
The problem is that a device can appear to be working for simple
stuff, but still be quite broken (fall over with any significant
load or have other problems). That is actually not that uncommon.
The only way to catch these is to run longer stress tests. That is
what the SUSE Linux hardware certification does.
Also it would still not help with the problem the original poster
had - that devices are filled under different names in the hardware
database. Unfortunately device vendors tend to be quite creative
at giving even identical cards new names, or sometimes even changing
the hardware silently without changing the name :/
-Andi
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