Re: Debian Sarge in a e450
Leopold Palomo-Avellaneda schrieb am Mittwoch, 09. März 2005 um 17:35:00 +0100:
> A Dimecres 09 Març 2005 17:28, Joerg Friedrich va escriure:
> ....
> > Yes, works like charm :-)
>
> I like to ear this :-)
>
> > > Also, I would like to ask, and please think that I'm a newbie in this
> > > architecture if it's posible to buy a normal pci card, for example a SATA
> > > controller, and (looking first the correct pci slot(about V) plug it in
> > > e450, and configure the driver if it's supoorted by the kernel, and
> > > that's all.
> >
> > Even if the kernel would support this SATA controller, which I do not
> > know, I doubt that you can convince OpenBootProm to boot from disks
> > connected to this controller.
>
> Ok, I cannot boot from that disk. But could I use it as /home or /tmp or
> swap, or /var , no?
I neither have any expirience with sata nor do I own such devices.
All I can say is that kernelconfig (2.6.8) offers to enable sata-support
for these:
Serial ATA (SATA) support (SCSI_SATA) [N/y/?] y
ServerWorks Frodo / Apple K2 SATA support (EXPERIMENTAL) (SCSI_SATA_SVW) [N/m/y/?] (NEW)
Intel PIIX/ICH SATA support (SCSI_ATA_PIIX) [N/m/y/?] (NEW)
NVIDIA SATA support (SCSI_SATA_NV) [N/m/y/?] (NEW)
Promise SATA TX2/TX4 support (SCSI_SATA_PROMISE) [N/m/y/?] (NEW)
Promise SATA SX4 support (SCSI_SATA_SX4) [N/m/y/?] (NEW)
Silicon Image SATA support (SCSI_SATA_SIL) [N/m/y/?] (NEW)
SiS 964/180 SATA support (SCSI_SATA_SIS) [N/m/y/?] (NEW)
VIA SATA support (SCSI_SATA_VIA) [N/m/y/?] (NEW)
VITESSE VSC-7174 SATA support (SCSI_SATA_VITESSE) [N/m/y/?] (NEW)
--
Jörg Friedrich
There are only 10 types of people:
Those who understand binary and those who don't.
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