On 13:20 Tue 08 Feb , Devraj Mukherjee wrote: > Everyone, > > Along with your help I have been fighting with a software RAID1 issue on > my Dell PowerEdge server. All along I believe I have been doing everything > right except that the kernel did not support SATA. > > I have been working with hardened-dev-source which yields into a > 2.6.7-hardened-r9 kernel. I did check all options to do with SATA and > nothing stillw orked. I have also tried a normal (without RAID) install of > Gentoo with the same kernel and failed to boot from my SATA drive. > > Can someone confirm if I have to use 2.6.9 kernels to get SATA support? > I can confirm that SATA and RAID0 works very well with gentoo-dev-sources, following the forums. I am using latest stable. I'm sure RAID1 works just as well. I would recommend getting your machine up and running with a non-hardened kernel, then try the hardened, which tends to break some things.
> Is gentoo-sources good enough for servers? > gentoo-sources has been the 2.4 kernel, though that will be changing to 2.6 when 2005.0 comes out. I would recommend using the 2.6.10 kernel (latest stable), unless you have some overwhelming reason to use a 2.4 kernel. There were some driver issues/changes regarding SATA in some of the 2.4, early 2.6, kernels. Some of the 2.6.9 kernels reportedly has some other issues, though I never saw any. > If not can the patches from hardened-dev-sources (for 2.6.7) be applied to > the 2.6.9 sources? Again, take it one step at a time. First, get SATA and RAID1 working, then worry about moving it to hardened. Bill Roberts -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
