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Re: Bug?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (andrew m. boardman)
Fri Aug 24 15:46:19 2007
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To: Thomas Heldt <thomas@MIT.EDU>
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In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 24 Aug 2007 14:02:28 EDT."
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Date: Fri, 24 Aug 2007 15:45:07 -0400
From: "andrew m. boardman" <amb@MIT.EDU>
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> My question: why does the athena linux distribution seem to rely on
> legacy mode for SATA drives?
The current Linux Athena installer is extremely long in the tooth, and
it's not the current Athena release itself so much as the installer which
requires legacy mode on lots of newer hardware.
That said, there's a new architecture for the Linux Athena installer
which should allow it to closely track the hardware compatability of
stock RHEL4, and there will be a beta release based on this within a day
or two.
Once a machine Linux Athena is installed, it's also possible to switch it
over to using native SATA (at least if RHEL4 supports it, which is
generally the case), but some manual intervention is required with the
software first. (I'm not actually sure if this is documented, but if not
it will be shortly.)
Andrew Boardman/ZINC/ISDA/IS&T/MIT +1.617.253.4040 amb@mit.edu
