OT: SuSE, Raid (was: Microsoft takes on ACT)

[Wilhelm Spickermann <wilhelm.spickermann@spickermann-d.de>]

--Am Freitag, Mai 24, 2002 15:32:24 +0100 schrieb "chris.danx" 
<spamoff.danx@ntlworld.com>:

> "Ingo Marks" <adv@region-nord.de> wrote in message
> news:aclfpe$kc3$03$1@news.t-online.com...
>>
>> I am a SuSE Linux user for long years. In my experience it is
>> best to wait for at least minor version 3. I tried 6.1 and
>> worked for a long time with 6.4. Later I tried Suse 7.0, 7.1,
>> 7.2 and was not satisfied. Only 7.3 was rock solid with good
>> device support.
>
> Thanks, I wish i'd have known that when I bought 8.0!

I have to support what Ingo said. Try to copy a 7.3. (In our 
local linux user group mailing list, we have a "distribution 
war" from time to time and SuSE 8.0 was the first one where 
nothing happend because all SuSE fans stayed quiet.) If things 
continue to go in that direction, I will change to another 
distri -- and I've started using SuSE before they started 
numbering their distris. :-(

Concerning the raid controller mainboard:

1: have you tried http://www.promise.com/support/suse_eng.asp ?
(I don't know anything about it, but if promise has an own linux 
driver for that board, it should be there.)

2: If you search the internet, search for the chip number. The 
guys writing device drivers have had bad experiences with names 
of boards, sale names etc. -- it only leads to confusion. So 
they prefer to talk about chip numbers.

Good luck
  Wilhelm