Fwd: RAID

[lordSauron <lordsauronthegreat@gmail.com>]

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From: lordSauron <lordsauronthegreat@gmail.com>
Date: Nov 8, 2005 8:59 PM
Subject: Re: RAID
To: "John C. Martin" <John@smallbearfarm.com>


On 11/8/05, John C. Martin <John@smallbearfarm.com> wrote:
> On Tuesday 08 November 2005 3:14 pm, lordSauron wrote:
> <snip>
> > amd64 installer (which supported kernel ver. 2.6.x-11, the x being
> > holes in my memory) it didn't work (or at least I couldn't make it
> > work, but I'm still not that great at installing so it's totally
> > possible I just majorly screwed up and did something stupid along the
> > line...).  I think it'd work with the newer kernels (>= -12) b/c with
> > the -11 my m-board integrated audio and LAN didn't work, but now they
> > do... so I think that it's just that the -11 kernel didn't yet have
>
> I can't speak much to the RAID issues, but just FYI the "x" that you can't
> remember is probably the most important part of the kernel version number.
> The suffix "-11" is the Debian package version, and is changed frequently as
> the packaging is adjusted.  In all likelihood, a device that did not work

So that's what that's all about...

> under package version -11 will still not work under version -12, but if you
> look at kernel version 2.6.8 vs 2.6.12, 2.6.13, or 2.6.14 there are a number
> of changes in the kernel modules and devices supported.

I think I have the 2.6.12 kernel.

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