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I'm trying to install CentOS 4 on an A8V on the PATA/Raid drives on the Promise controller. The Promise controller is recognized (sata_promise), but the PATA drives are not recognized. Base on this thread https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=147303 it seems that there is a patch which was merged in 2.6.11 to get pata working. Any ideas how to proceed? Thanks in advance

I created a fresh new rails app, no gems, no nothing. Completely unmodified. Doing anything that initializes rails takes 2 - 3 times longer in ruby 1.9.1 than it does in 1.8.7. Obviously with a fresh rails app, this is only 2 - 3 seconds extra. But with a decent sized app, this can take up to 25 seconds for rails to initialize, vs the 12 seconds in 1.8.7. I''ve been racking my brain on

Hi everyone, I'm looking into setting up a SATA hardware raid, probably 5 to use with CentOS 4. I chose hardware raid over software mostly because I like the fact that the raid is transparent to the OS. Does anyone know of any SATA controllers that are well tested for this sort of usage? From what I can tell from googling, this is more or less where RHEL stands: Red Hat Enterprise Linux