Topic: SATA device and harddisk

[daley]

Hello,

What is the smeserver version of kernel support SATA enable? does v65 works for it?

Regards.

[treyh]

sme 7 will/has full support for SATA.

there is also a custom SME 6.x ISO that I have got to work with SATA drives.

Your best bet is wait until sme 7 is stable

[daley]

I hv got this sme-server-6.0.1-02Custom, does it works???

How is your one?? the sme7 is on alpha version, which i am using the std pc only.

[gordonr]

I hv got this sme-server-6.0.1-02Custom, does it works???

How is your one?? the sme7 is on alpha version, which i am using the std pc only.

SME7 is at Beta4, with some updates available via yum. I'd certainly say it is more than "stable", but it's not yet "production".

[treyh]

Someone emailed me and asked where I got the custom 6.x ISO that came with sata support.

Here is the information:
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Here is the post I found that helped me:

http://forums.contribs.org/index.php?topic=26193.0

Here is the link for the custom ISO that I used:

http://mirror.contribs.org/smeserver/contribs/index.php?subdir=ckearns&sortby=name

But he has also come up with another solution. He modified the mkinitrd-4.2.9-1sn file(s) and didn't have to use the custom ISO. I haven't experimented with it.

I know that the custom ISO does work for share and has  some nice contribs added to it.
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[Jáder]

I have found this link:
http://fedoranews.org/blog/?p=425

about a kernel to RH 7.3 with SATA support.

I´d love to see someone to compile it "for SME" if a default kernel don´t work (I don´t know or have any machines w/SATA to test).

Thanks

Jáder

[gordonr]

I´d love to see someone to compile it "for SME" if a default kernel don´t work (I don´t know or have any machines w/SATA to test).

SATA support exists out of the box in 7.0, and a custom ISO exists for 6.0.1 - see above.

[DaveTas]

On my Intel 875P MB with hardware sata raid, I had to disable the raid from the bios, and set it back to ide..   The 6.5 rc1 iso recognised the two drives and asked if I wanted software raid1 (which I did)

It regcognised both sata drives fine..

[Jáder]

Hi Gordon

> SATA support exists out of the box in 7.0, and a custom ISO exists for 6.0.1 - see above.

I'm aware of these. But I'd like to see 6.01 be updated till 7.0 go production (stable). And nowadays every single motherboard is coming with SATA!.
If someone has a environment set to compile kernels to 6.01 maybe this would be "simple" than average.

Thanks

Jáder

[gordonr]

But I'd like to see 6.01 be updated till 7.0 go production (stable).

Let me repeat - there is a custom 6.0.1 ISO with a SATA enabled kernel. Someone has done the work you have asked for....

[rich]

Does anyone happen to know if this custom 6.0.1 iso that supports SATA drives will be upgradable to 7 when it comes out?

My understanding is that the regular version 6.0.1 is going to be upgradable.

Thanks!

[daley]

Does anyone happen to know if this custom 6.0.1 iso that supports SATA drives will be upgradable to 7 when it comes out?

My understanding is that the regular version 6.0.1 is going to be upgradable.

Thanks!

Rich,

The best is the 7, i hv tried the custom version, it doesnt seek to work.

[jdanvers]

Hey guys...

I really (really) fear asking this question because I suspect that it has been asked a thousand times (yet I've looked some and haven't come across anything) but...  does anyone have any idea as to when v7.0 will be going stable?  I understand that there can't be a hard and fast date...  but maybe a rough approximation - like "we're hoping for January or February of 2006" or something.

Anything...  ?

(ducking for fear of getting slayed for asking such a question...  )