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Subject: Re: 6.1 with PAE on a recent server (HP DL380 G5 or Dell PE 1950) ?
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Olivier Mueller wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I will soon get some new servers with more than 4 GB of RAM, and
> I am wondering if they will work fine even with the PAE
> option activated: are all the required drivers (RAID mfid, bce
> on the Dell, ciss0 on the HP) 100% compatible, or should I expect
> trouble? 
>   

Why not use AMD64 mode instead of PAE?