Problems with kernel

[Anthony Emmite]

Does anyone know how to get Debian to see my SATA drive.
It will not even see a external 40GB drive. I have a Dell Dimension 8400,
2Gb Ram, Two IDE CD ROMs which use plus the primary 160Gb Sata drive and
another 40Gb Sata. It just will not see them. This has happened with RH9, as
well as SuSe Linux. I had read in a news group post that Debian 3.1r0a does
but that is the version I am using. I can run all as virtual machine within
Windows but you lose much! Please help if you can, I also want to use my tv
tuner card within Linux. Plus the burner and CD player.

Anthony Emmite
ajemmite at houston.rr.com
(713)991-1592
 

-----Original Message-----
From: redhat-install-list-bounces at redhat.com
[mailto:redhat-install-list-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of steve
Sent: Thursday, November 03, 2005 5:56 PM
To: Getting started with Red Hat Linux
Subject: Problems with kernel

It has taken me a long time to figure out that the 2.6.9-22.ELsmp (and
the 2.6.9-22.0.1.ELsmp) kernels have lots of problems. I've reverted
all the servers back to 2.6.9-11.ELsmp and they work fine now. The
unresponsiveness, higher load than usual, and load spiking behavior
have all disappeared.

One problem. The server that I most recently installed RHEL on (the
one that four out of five times would start with the X server taking
up 100% of one of the CPUs) is new and does not have 2.6.9-11.ELsmp
installed anywhere in /boot/.

There seems to be no way to get up2datre to download an older version
of anything. I loath to go down to the datacenter and reinstall from
an older version of the CDs. Really! Is there any other option? Can I
just copy the 2.6.9-11.ELsmp related file from /boot/ of another
server and change the grub.conf file and be OK? Or is there something
else I should be worried about?

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