On Wed, 2002-07-03 at 13:42, Anders Holm wrote:
> As a previous WorldPort employee...
>> The Dell 2450's had on occasion a bad backplane. There _may_ be some of
> these still there, so test before you buy!! ;)
>As the person responsible for installing Linux onto the 2450's, I can
vouch for the bad backplane problem. Some could be sorted with a floppy,
downloaded from Dell, one took three days to be sorted by a Dell
engineer.
Obviously, only some were affected, but as Anders suggested, try before
you buy, other than that, they are great Linux servers.
Eamonn
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