RedHat 9 install on Maxtor SATA drive

[Debbie Tropiano]

John & Saurabh -

Thanks for the feedback about RH9 & SATA.  Based on my web searching,
I was afraid that it wouldn't work but was looking for some confirmation.

The goal for RH9 is some consistency on our network.  We run FC2/FC3 on
all of our opteron systems (production servers, actually) but run RH9
on our Intel boxes.  The system that I need to load is an Intel box, so
I wanted to stay consistent.  But I guess I'll go with FC3 instead.

OTOH we are looking at going with RHEL (4, I think) for our new cluster
that will run Rocks.  So yet more RH diversity on our network.  :-)

Thanks again,
Debbie

On Fri, Nov 11, 2005 at 12:49:50AM -0800, John Rumpelein wrote:
>    Absolutely right -- at risk of getting thrown off the list ;) , CentOS
>    is  basically  the  same as RHEL without commercial support.  I'd give
>    that  a  try  before  messing  around  with  RH9.   I've  found Fedora
>    unsuitable  for  any  serious  use,  but  of  course it's intended for
>    hobbyists and developers.
> 
>    On 11/10/05, Saurabh Bathe <sbathe at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>      Debbie Tropiano wrote:
>      > Folks -
>      >
>      >  Is  it possible to install RedHat 9 on system with a Maxtor SATA
>      drive?
>      > I'm not finding any drivers for it (yet).
>      >
>      > Any help is appreciated,
>      > Debbie
>      The drive (ie. disk) does not matter. What matters is the SATA
>      controller. I still doubt whether RH9 would recognise any SATA
>      controller  unless  you  install  a  rather  recent kernel (atleast
>      2.4.23 IIRC).
>      In any case why do you want to install RH9 now? Its obsolete.
>      Get Fedora Core 3/4. If you need more stability and can spend some
>      money, get RHEL4 or otherwise some clone like CentOS.
>      --Saurabh
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