James Jolin wrote:
>>>>Does anyone know what distro(s) support stata drives and pci expess?
>>>>Want to run linux on my Dell 8400.
>>
>>Hardware support is in the kernel, not specific to any particular
>>distro. Try anything with a 2.6 kernel. It should work.
>
> chad,
> Here is what I got from suse:
>
> This does not directly reference HDs, but might offer some insight to
> SATA. This
> is an extract from the 9.3 Release_notes.
>
> SATA CD and DVD Devices (ROMs and Writers)
> The Linux kernel driver support for these devices is experimental.
> To activate CD-ROM SATA support on the desktop remove these lines in
> /usr/share/hal/fdi/90defaultpolicy/storage-policy.fdi:
> <!-- temporary disable polling on SATA devices to avoid a kernel crash -->
> <merge key="storage.media_check_enabled" type="bool">false</merge>
Well, /usr/share has nothing to do with the kernel. This is some SuSE
software that deals with SATA support. Furthermore, if they don't
mention HDs, there's a good chance that they will work with less effort.
> Too bad I don't grasp what they are talking about. Suse does have the
> 2.6 kernal, however. You would think that these people would know what
> is supported and what is not. I may try the live cd and see what happens.
All I can tell you is that I have a SATA RAID 1 running on my webserver,
and it's running a 2.6 kernel in Gentoo. I'm not sure how much more I
can tell you without more specific information.
Chad Martin
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