Re: Debian on Supermicro H8SSL-i

On Wed, 21 Feb 2007 10:42:25 +0100, Thomas Richter wrote:

sarge might be too old to include the drivers for the SATA chipset, so it
cannot see the disks. Try "etch".

I've not completed the installation yet, but it does look like this
version sees the disks.

Is this lag common to all Debian derivatives (ie. Ubuntu, which appears to
be growing in popularity)? Or do at least some of these derivatives
include newer drivers? If so, which?

Thanks...

- Andrew

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