Greetings, We'll buy server hardware soon to run a critical app that requires SL3. Upgrade to SL4 later is probably a go, but initially it must be SL3.
So SL308 would load with 2.4.21-47.0.1.ELsmp & yum update to 2.4.21-50.ELsmp. The hardware may have Tyan S2925G2NR mobo which has nvidia nForce Pro 3400 chipset, with nvidia MCP55 SATA controller. Some hunting shows: . SL3.0.8 release notes: Nvidia Nforce(motherboard chipset) drivers: IDE is supported. NO SUPPORT for ethernet, audio, sata. That sounds bad. But: . "Newer NVIDIA chipsets are AHCI, and use the ahci driver not sata_nv" . both sata_nv & ahci drivers in SL3 . both sata_nv & ahci driver said "production" maturity . "libata AHCI driver ahci became available starting 2.4.29-preX ..." (that's later than SL308 kernel) Questions: . would the version of the ahci driver in SL3 be older than the version in SL4? . If it is older, would an older ahci driver version in SL3 have any problem driving the nvidia MCP55 (or possibly even newer if a newer mobo) SATA controller? . If ahci can't or won't, will SL3 understand to use sata_nv driver instead? And would sata_nv have any problem driving the nvidia MCP55 (or possibly even newer if a newer mobo) SATA controller? many many thanks