Alright VNC server is not what you should use at all. Get RedHat, Mandrake will work like crap as a server, it's a newbie client os, not server. RedHat is whatcha need, as for not using VNC, SSH w/ xterm = basically vnc, but much MUCH better. Gentus is based off RH 6.2 w/ a modded kernel that supports the HPT370, RH 7.1 includes the 2.4.x kernel which has native support for it.