Topic: Next Release of SME

[eiceic]

Does anyone have insight on when a new SME version will be released.  I just bought a new Dell 1800 Server with SATA Raid and I could not get SME to see those drives no matter what I did.

The latest Mandrake and Fedora had no problems recognizing the SATA drives, so I installed Fedora, but I would much rather use SME.

I have customers who want to get a new server and put SME on it, but I don't know of any brand new name-brand server that I can guarantee will work with the SME -- any ideas?

Thanks,

Chris Buechler

[gzartman]

Gordon Rowell answered the SATA question here:

http://lists.contribs.org/mailman/public/discussion/2004-November/000027.html

Greg

[Reinhold]

eiceic,
Greg,

Fact is: SME kernel is too old to support SATA:
http://linux.yyz.us/sata/faq-sata-raid.html
http://linux.yyz.us/sata/sata-status.html
http://linux.yyz.us/sata/software-status.html

http://www.linuxmafia.com/faq/Hardware/sata.html
so talking about Gordons advice I'd rather look here .-)
http://lists.contribs.org/mailman/public/discussion/2004-November/000025.html

BIOS support seems rather rare - even/especially in Brand Name stuff...

BUT if Chris absolutely want's to install SATA drives he could always go for one of those electrical "genderbenders" SATA <-> ATA like those from Addonics or Abit ... but that doesn't seem to be the only intention.

Regards
Reinhold