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Dear,

We are using SCO Open Server 5.6. We are planning to migrate it to a new
Dell PowerEdge 1800. We want to know whether it's compatible with SCO Unix.
Any known problems?

Thanks!

Rebecca

"We are using SCO Open Server 5.6. We are planning to migrate it to a
new
Dell PowerEdge 1800. We want to know whether it's compatible with SCO
Unix.
Any known problems?"

Shouldn't be an issue. This is the same machine except for the case as
the 1850 which is certified.

Disable HT, Disable USB and make sure you purchase it with the CD not
CDRW, and read the README for the amird 2.25 driver. The bootstring is
very important.


http://www.sco.com/chwp

--jim

"Jim Bonnet" <jim.bonnet@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:1126044404.561276.269160@g14g2000cwa.googlegr oups.com...
> "We are using SCO Open Server 5.6. We are planning to migrate it to a
> new
> Dell PowerEdge 1800. We want to know whether it's compatible with SCO
> Unix.
> Any known problems?"
>
> Shouldn't be an issue. This is the same machine except for the case as
> the 1850 which is certified.
>
> Disable HT, Disable USB and make sure you purchase it with the CD not
> CDRW, and read the README for the amird 2.25 driver. The bootstring is
> very important.
>
>
> http://www.sco.com/chwp
>
> --jim
>

How come not the CDRW ? I got the 2800 with CDRW+DVD+floppy combo and backup
edge works really well with the CD writer. But maybe that's why my REV
doesn't want to write using OSR 507 , Should I put in a CDROM instead of
the CDRW ?

I had problems on two unit with the built-in GIGA-BIT network card (NICs).
You may need to locate better drivers or just simply disable it and and a
regular 10/100 network card.

"Rebecca" <rebecca@nospam.com> wrote in message
news:11hrvefg929rcbb@corp.supernews.com...
> Dear,
>
> We are using SCO Open Server 5.6. We are planning to migrate it to a new
> Dell PowerEdge 1800. We want to know whether it's compatible with SCO
> Unix. Any known problems?
>
> Thanks!
>
> Rebecca
>

"How come not the CDRW ?"

There are knows problems during install with the CDRW units.

--jim

"I had problems on two unit with the built-in GIGA-BIT network card
(NICs). "

What were your problems?

--jim

Jim Bonnet wrote:
> "We are using SCO Open Server 5.6. We are planning to migrate it to a
> new
> Dell PowerEdge 1800. We want to know whether it's compatible with SCO
> Unix.
> Any known problems?"
>
> Shouldn't be an issue. This is the same machine except for the case as
> the 1850 which is certified.
>
> Disable HT, Disable USB and make sure you purchase it with the CD not
> CDRW, and read the README for the amird 2.25 driver. The bootstring is
> very important.
>
>
> http://www.sco.com/chwp
>
> --jim

Just to throw in my $0.02 about the Dells...if it works, it will
probably work great, but I just spent 2 days trying to get 507
installed on a 2850.
Here is a quick and dirty list of things that I found:

1 - though 506 installed fine, 507 wouldn't install at all. turns out
it was a "known issue" (thanks, dell) with the specific model of
CDRW/DVD (model TS-L462)combo drive. replaced it with the DVDRW from
my Dell notebook and the install worked fine. simple enough to type,
but took a good 10 hours to figure out...more about it here:
http://lists.us.dell.com/pipermail/s...ly/000223.html

2 - disabling the USB in the BIOS disabled the CD-ROM. yeah, i know it
sounds weird, but the IDE cdrom drive is somehow dependent on the BIOS
USB settings

3 - the BIOS lets you assign IRQs to different devices, but it always
assigns the same IRQ to certain things...like video, raid, and usb all
on the same one. that's what made us try turning off the USB in the
bios, but ran into the CDROM problem. however, adding
"disable=usb_uhci,usb_ohci,usb_ehci" to the defbootstr seems to have
cleared that up. the network adapter keeps cutting out if you don't.

That's about it for me. Hopefully the time I spent finding this stuff
out will save someone else the trouble.

Kevin