Re: Debian stable & SATA drive
On Fri, Jun 09, 2006 at 10:49:32AM -0500, Owen Heisler wrote:
> On Thu, 2006-06-08 at 20:23 -0700, Andrew Sackville-West wrote:
> > On Thu, Jun 08, 2006 at 08:09:40PM -0500, Owen Heisler wrote:
> > > I have a running system using Debian stable. I want to use stable, but
> > > am planning on changing my hard drive configuration to include SATA.
> > > Sarge will detect drives on only half of the ports (two, but I need
> > > three), but Etch will. So I either use Etch/testing instead, wait for
> > > Etch/stable to be released, or use some other alternative (but I am new
> > > to Debian, so don't prefer this). I will probably just wait for Etch to
> > > be released.
> >
> > why don't you just roll your own kernel with SATA support? ISTM that
> > the primary issue is SATA support, and with that done you're good to
> > go. Except you won't get kernel updates from debian and will have to
> > maintain the kernel until etch comes out. That, however, would be
> > pretty similar I suppose to using a backported kernel. Is it possible,
> > I wonder, to just compile the modules you need? are the kernel
> > versions that different? I'm asking because I don't know.
>
> I'd rather not play with kernels; I'm not that experienced. I have
> before, but it will work as well to wait for Etch to be released.
>
> Compiling the necessary kernel modules would not work for me, I think,
> because the root filesystem will on a RAID array on three SATA drives.
> The /boot partition is on a PATA drive, however.
suggestion:
You can have /boot and / on PATA, but put /etc /usr /..., whatever on
your RAID. Just use / as a place to hang mount points, and maybe crash
recovery software.
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Paul E Condon
pecondon@mesanetworks.net
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