Topic: What version to use?

[snappytom]

Hey,

I'm going to install SME Server onto a gateway machine at work, but i was wondering what version of SME Server is best/stable?

The gateway machine is brand new, running hardware RAID-1 configurations on SATA drives. So I need the OS the be able to pickup and recognise the drives

1x Intel Pentium D 820 2.8GHz Dual Core CPU
1x GIGABYTE GA-8I945G-PRO MOTHER BOARD
2x Seagate Serial ATA Hard Disk - 300Gb -> Running in RAID-1
1x Antec Server Case BLK 500w TX1050B
4x 512Mb 533MHz DDR2 Ram Corsair
1x ASUS X300SE/TD 128MB PCI EXPRESS
1x Benq 16 X Dual Layer Dvd Burner 1640Blk
1x 1.44Mb Floppy Disk Drive

Any help on this issue would be great!

I have already tried version 7.0 however i got a "Grub boot error" during initial boot after install. Will running a variant of version 6 or 6.5 fix this?

cheers,

[irian]

Will running a variant of version 6 or 6.5 fix this?

probably not: no native SATA support

Irian

[snappytom]

If there is no native SATA support, then why was I able to install it on the RAID1 configured drives?

doesn't the OS detect the SATA drives as SCSI drives anyway?

Is Grub having a cry because there is no native SATA support, or because of the RAID1 config?

[dcniki]

I didn't look up the model SATA drives you are using and don't care to, but I have had LOTS of trouble out of SATA drives that are not RAID specific. If you bought just standard SATA drives, they will run very hot and just not keep up with the constant data transfer and eventually just not be able to keep up.

Western digital puts out drives now that are specifically for running SATA RAIDs, more cache and better transfer rates drive to drive.