[Asterisk-Users] kind of urgent

[Walt Reed]

On Thu, Jan 06, 2005 at 01:35:16PM -0500, Leif Madsen said:
> On Thu, 6 Jan 2005 19:32:24 +0200, Shoval Tomer <shoval at softov.co.il> wrote:
> > Can anyone comment why shouldn't we use FC 3 for an * production system?
> > 
> > I'm not looking to start a distro war, but we just found out that redhat
> > 9 (and FC 1) don't support SATA drives, and apparently FC 3 does.
> > 
> > We are only familiar with red hat and are in a point in time that
> > switching distros is not available.
> > The guy installing the system is already on location.
> > 
> > Yes, I know we made a silly mistake. Please help us...
> > Thanks.
> 
> I'm not too sure what you want help with.  You say that you are stuck
> to using FC3 because earlier versions don't support SATA drives? 
> Could you use an older version and recompile the SATA drive support
> into the kernel?  What about FC2 as it's 2.6 kernel based?

Another option is installing a good SATA controller like the 3ware.
Drives show up as SCSI, and even fairly old distro's work out of the box
with them. Most onboard controllers are pretty crappy - avoid Promise
and their fake RAID.