Re: D3 Linux 7.2.0 to ????

(latimerp) wrote:
Be prepared to dig for the driver for the digiboard.

The question is can you get a port that gives benefits worth more
than (27.3k for D3 upgrade) - (cost of new DB + conversion costs).

Patrick's right about the drivers. You will be hard-pressed to find RH6.2 drivers for the old digi, the new NIC, disk controller, etc. I did that once for a client that refused to upgrade from D3 6.? on RH5.?. I had to recompile the kernel to get the old hardware (cyclades serial ports) to work. Of course, it ended up costing way more than the hardware was worth. Next upgrade we junked the cyclades cards for digi ethernet terminal servers and the latest RH release, the upgrade was painless.

However, I question that cost assumption. To reinstate the SMA and upgrade 50 D3 users to 7.4.2 is 50 x $99 x 2 = $9,900. Add $899 for RHEL4 ES(w/ 12x5 support from RH) and the total is $10,800 with not much more required than loading/configuring RH and a D3 restore. I see lots of griping here about RH CUPS, but I use it as installed with RH at all my customer sites with very few problems (so far, knock on wood?).

/Scott Ballinger
Pareto Corporation
Edmonds WA USA
206 713 6006
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