CERC ATA100 & Linux 2.6 Kernels..

[Matthew Barr]

I've been searching on & off for a few years about this.  I've got a  
PE 600SC (IIRC, it's in Colo) with the CERC ATA100 card..  Support was  
dropped in the 2.6 kernel a while back, and I never was able to make  
the jump from Debian Sarge -> Etch or newer, or Centos 4  etc.


With the rather impending doom of support ending for Sarge, I need to  
come up with a plan to get this host onto a newer OS.  The drives that  
are attached are, IIRC, 3 80 gig drives.

I'm seeing some old traffic about a firmware downgrade maybe fixing  
the problem (from 6.67 -> 6.61) and some possibility that recent  
code / patches might have fixed the problem in either -mm Kernel  
patches or in 2.6.20.


Anyone able to comment?

(I've also found http://www.humbug.info/?p=123 , which is a Centos 5  
case)

I'd like to stick w/ Debian, since i've gotten everything working  
there as it is.  I'm hoping to do an inplace upgrade of the packages,  
and not take the server down for an extended period of time.


Matthew