Re: Need commercial help

On Saturday 19 Nov 2005 01:01, s. keeling wrote:
> Ritesh Raj Sarraf <[email protected]>:
> >  On Thu, November 17, 2005 19:50, Thomas Drillich said:
> > > Hello Mr. Gangoly,
> > >
> > > may I could help, but a few questions before,
> > >
> > > a) Do you need help on building custom debian kernel-package for your
> > >     driver, or must the driver being written or patched.
> >
> >  Many RAID controllers are not supported or not fully supported by the
> >  Debian kernels for multiple reasons. A patch will be required for the
> >  person.
>
> I was using Mylex DAC960 hardware RAID in 2001.  Are you saying such
> old tech. has lost its support, but in Debian kernels only?
>

megaraid is one example where you'll see major differences. Another would be 
tg3 vs bcm5700

> > > b) Must the kernel boot from scsi-raid or could it boot from ide.
> >
> >  I guess scsi-raid.
>
> Why?  What's its boot interface type have to do with the bulk of your
> storage?
>

Many servers don't have IDE channels these days.

>
> --
>     Any technology distinguishable from magic is insufficiently advanced.
>     (*)    http://www.spots.ab.ca/~keeling           Linux Counter #80292
>     - -    Spammers! http://www.spots.ab.ca/~keeling/autospam.html
>            http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1855.txt

Regards,
rrs
-- 
Ritesh Raj Sarraf
RESEARCHUT -- http://www.researchut.com
"Stealing logic from one person is plagiarism, stealing from many is 
research."
"Necessity is the mother of invention."

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (GNU/Linux)

iD8DBQBDftMC4Rhi6gTxMLwRAm9sAJ4xPM54EXL92h6yh7TONguCd8/W9ACgi7qP
FWJCtc5meDKXUo3uQcE6nuY=
=J6oe
-----END PGP SIGNATURE-----