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. -- Paul E Condon [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
