Re: Debian stable & SATA drive

On Fri, Jun 09, 2006 at 10:49:32AM -0500, Owen Heisler wrote:
On Thu, 2006-06-08 at 20:23 -0700, Andrew Sackville-West wrote:
On Thu, Jun 08, 2006 at 08:09:40PM -0500, Owen Heisler wrote:
I have a running system using Debian stable. I want to use stable, but
am planning on changing my hard drive configuration to include SATA.
Sarge will detect drives on only half of the ports (two, but I need
three), but Etch will. So I either use Etch/testing instead, wait for
Etch/stable to be released, or use some other alternative (but I am new
to Debian, so don't prefer this). I will probably just wait for Etch to
be released.

why don't you just roll your own kernel with SATA support? ISTM that
the primary issue is SATA support, and with that done you're good to
go. Except you won't get kernel updates from debian and will have to
maintain the kernel until etch comes out. That, however, would be
pretty similar I suppose to using a backported kernel. Is it possible,
I wonder, to just compile the modules you need? are the kernel
versions that different? I'm asking because I don't know.

I'd rather not play with kernels; I'm not that experienced. I have
before, but it will work as well to wait for Etch to be released.

Compiling the necessary kernel modules would not work for me, I think,
because the root filesystem will on a RAID array on three SATA drives.
The /boot partition is on a PATA drive, however.

suggestion:
You can have /boot and / on PATA, but put /etc /usr /..., whatever on
your RAID. Just use / as a place to hang mount points, and maybe crash
recovery software.


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