CERC ATA100 & Linux 2.6 Kernels..

[John]

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From: linux-poweredge-bounces at dell.com
[mailto:linux-poweredge-bounces at dell.com] On Behalf Of Matthew Barr
Sent: Tuesday, March 04, 2008 7:41 PM
To: linux-poweredge at dell.com
Subject: CERC ATA100 & Linux 2.6 Kernels..

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
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You have the link to the article on how and what you need to do!!! It is the
same thing in Debian. Get the patch. Build Kernel. Make Module. What will
you lose by trying? You don't have to build it on the Machine in
Question....

John
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