[Info-vax] IBM nearing deal to acquire Red Hat

[Dave Froble]

On 4/17/2019 9:48 AM, Scott Dorsey wrote:

> Right now I am very very pissed off about the DL380 Gen9, because the new
> RAID controllers will not recognize SATA or SAS disks that do not have
> HP's signature on them.  So instead of buying a disk from Seagate I have to
> buy the same disk rebadgaed by HP at twice the price.   Or I have to throw
> out the HP raid controller and install a Dell one, which I can do with Linux
> no problem but which is likely to be an issue with VMS.

Scott, does the HP disk drives have drop dead dates, similar to the HP 
ink cartridges?

> I do not know if this "new technology" has been continued into the Gen10
> but it caused us to move to Dell and Supermicro for a lot of our newer
> systems.

Which is the appropriate action when a vendor thinks to "own" you ...


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