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Re: PCI ATA card support



The standard kernel with debian 3 is version 2.2, but there is also a 'kernel 
flavour' available based on version 2.4.
See 
http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/i386/release-notes/ch-whats-new.en.html#s-newinst 
for further information.

Also, the kernel sources for version 2.4 are available as a package, so you 
could compile your own kernel with the proper hardware support after doing a 
basic installation on your 10G disk.
See http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/reference/reference.en.html for 
information on Debian and how to compile your own kernel.

Both docs are also available in German.

Good luck,

FJP

On Saturday 22 March 2003 14:09, Lindsay Yardley wrote:
> G'day all,
> I'm trying to setup a debian 3 r0 file/print server with a 1G Primary
> Master HDD and a PCI ATA card ("Sil 0680 ATA/133 Medley RAID Controller")
> which has 2 of 40G HDD's.
>
> I want a *very* minimal install on the 1G HDD with /home on a RAID1
> partition on the 2 40G drives (user directories are in /home aren't they?).
>
> RedHat & Mandrake with the 2.4 kernel recognise the ATA card OK but Debian
> 3 r0 can't seem to find it. The documentation from Silicon Image would
> indicate that <snip> "for releases using a kernel later than 2.4, driver
> support for your Silicon Image-based storage controller is already
> included" <snip>.
>
> I'm pretty much a newbie to linux so any help would be gratefully received.
>
> tia
> Lindsay



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