On Mon, 15 Feb 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> What the hell are you folks talking about? I hate to be annoying, but
Hold on to your Hat!
> That said, the latest *stable* RAID tools as of the release of RH 5.2
> are *in* RH 5.2. No, there are no updates to them as some of the work
> since then has broken backwards compatibility, etc. The stuff that is
> in 5.2 does work though it may not be as appealing as the newer stuff.
> If you want the newer stuff, roll your own. We can't update each and
> every package in a distro umpteen times between releases. If what we
> ship in 5.2 is broken then we will try to fix it. But AFAIK that stuff
> is pretty stable.
FYI: I am using a K6-2 350Mhz on a 100Mhz bus ASUS and the RH5.2 install
floppy would not even boot. You wouldn't believe the hoops I had to jump
through in order to get the 2.0.36xx kernel installed and get both the
Adaptec 2940s going. The Redhat kernel patches I downloaded from your
site did fix the problem in the end. An updated boot image containing
the new kernel patches would have been useful. Or else instructions as
to how I might create one with the patches would have been sufficient.
For as much as I am guilty of spreading misinformation, I was initially
looking for something called mdtools and that was not there. I have
since found raidtools on the 5.2cd. If that's what caused the
confusion, please accept my apologies.
If you can qualify your statement of 'pretty stable' (installation boot
floppy should have been stable). And if it is stable, on the above
system then I intend to use it, thank you very much.
> Yes, newer stuff will be in our next release. No, I can't say when that
> is. Maybe I missed the point of this discussion...if so, please clarify
> for me.
--
Erich
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