DELL SC1425 running Debian - Are stock 2.6 kernels known to work?

[Marco Nesler]

I have a SC1425 running debian etch:
1 Intel Xeon 3.0Ghz - 2Gb ram - Single Maxtor SATA disk

my lspci:
00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation E7520 Memory Controller Hub (rev 09)
00:02.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation E7525/E7520/E7320 PCI Express
Port A (rev 09)
00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) USB
UHCI Controller #1 (rev 02)
00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) USB
UHCI Controller #2 (rev 02)
00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) USB2
EHCI Controller (rev 02)
00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 PCI Bridge (rev c2)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) LPC
Interface Bridge (rev 02)
00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) IDE
Controller (rev 02)
00:1f.2 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801EB (ICH5) SATA Controller (rev 02)
01:00.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 6700PXH PCI Express-to-PCI
Bridge A (rev 09)
01:00.2 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 6700PXH PCI Express-to-PCI
Bridge B (rev 09)
02:04.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82541GI/PI Gigabit
Ethernet Controller (rev 05)
04:03.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82541GI/PI Gigabit
Ethernet Controller (rev 05)
04:0d.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Radeon RV100
QY [Radeon 7000/VE]

my hd (from dmesg):
Vendor: ATA       Model: Maxtor 7L250S0    Rev: BACE
Type:   Direct-Access                      ANSI SCSI revision: 05

I only have installed stock packages, didnt recompile anything and I
never had any problem:
mirror:~# uname -a
Linux mirror 2.6.18-6-686 #1 SMP Sun Feb 10 22:11:31 UTC 2008 i686 GNU/Linux

mirror:~# dpkg -l | grep kernel
ii  linux-image-2.6-686               2.6.18+6etch3
    Linux kernel 2.6 image on PPro/Celeron/PII/P

hope this helps :)

marco

2008/7/18 Simon Waters <simonw at zynet.net>:
>
> I have a DELL SC1425 running Sarge.
>
> I have tested the upgrade path to Etch (Better late than never), but on
> slightly different hardware.
>
> The kernel is currently the stock Debian kernel: 2.4.27-2-686-smp [which has
> worked flawlessly for over 3 years].
>
> My install notes (2005-05-04) say stock Debian kernel 2.6.8-2-686-smp didn't
> work with this hardware, but I didn't write any details about how it broke (I
> vaguely recall it not detecting the hard disks?!).
>
> The server runs Squid (amongst other things).
>
> Squid in Etch (also version 2.6 just to confuse) requires "epoll".
>
> "epoll" requires a 2.6 kernel.
>
> (I had to completely rework the squid config as well to make it work - sigh).
>
> I'd be grateful if anyone could confirm at what point (if any) stock 2.6
> kernels started working, or at least that the current 2.6 kernel in Etch
> works!
>
> [Otherwise I might end up running everything of the test server!]
>
> The original Debian Install report for this box is here:
>
> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=307680
>
> Seems the Internet has a better record of some of these details that I do.
> It has output of lspci if relevant. Box also has software mirroring.
>
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