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

["chris.danx" <spamoff.danx@ntlworld.com>]

"Wilhelm Spickermann" <wilhelm.spickermann@spickermann-d.de> wrote in
message news:mailman.1022263262.23190.comp.lang.ada@ada.eu.org...
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> --Am Freitag, Mai 24, 2002 15:32:24 +0100 schrieb "chris.danx"
> <spamoff.danx@ntlworld.com>:
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> > "Ingo Marks" <adv@region-nord.de> wrote in message
> > news:aclfpe$kc3$03$1@news.t-online.com...
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> >> 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!
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> 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. :-(

on alt.os.linux.suse many ppl seem to think 8.0 is not too good, they
believe it was rushed out to be the first with KDE 3.  Unfortunately no one
new this until it's release and loads of ppl had pre-ordered it.

> Concerning the raid controller mainboard:
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> 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.)

Tried there every two weeks since 8.0 was delivered.

> 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.


(02/03/22 1.220.1.24)
	Add Promise 20276 to supported IDE controllers


Ah feck, you've got to be kidding me?  Kernel 2.19 pre 5 has some support
for this chipset :<.  I was told 2.18 supported the raid chipset which is
why I bought SuSE 8.0, nuttzzz.

Tonight I removed two IDE cables and ditched using the raid controller and
now that seems uneccessary.  If only I'd known chipset numbers where the
thing to go for, there wouldn't have been such a palava in here (first time
actually did something to the pc).

Hmm, now I'm wondering if it's possible to install SuSE with another kernel
instead of the one it's got, and get the installer to work with it?  Nick is
a pc techie guy I know and he'll be in the area tomorrow so it'd be great to
find out how to do this before then and take him up on his offer.  Any
suggestions?


Chris