[From nobody Thu Jun 10 21:58:24 2004
Date: Thu, 10 Jun 2004 03:35:54 -0600
From: Gerald Schepens <schepens@shaw.ca>
Subject: Re: Advantages of 2.6 kernel -- SATA
To: David Greaves <myth@dgreaves.com>
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David:
It sounds like you got farther than I did with your use of sata and a 
2.6 kernel.  What's your distro, and what sata controller / motherboard 
do you have?  Going to 2.6 was an issue I wanted to pursue but I've put 
it on the back burner because I had too many problems that I think are 
related to my sata controller, a promise fastrack 378  (I think it's 
378) onboard an Asus P4PE motherboard.

When I booted with the 2.6 kernel I compiled, I never could get root 
mounted and I'd end up with a kernel panic.  Eventually I got tired of 
messing with it and I'm still using 2.4.20.  And still putting up with 
the odd machine freeze-up when I'm both watching and recording on my 
PVR350... which I'd hoped going to 2.6 would avoid.

Pointers?

Thanks,

Gerald Schepens

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