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Hi, On my x86_64 system I have a SiL311x controller that can do RAID. If I configure my 2 identical disks in a RAID1 setup, I would expect to see only 1 block device on Linux. Still I see 2 block devices. Is this intentional, and if so, isn't that dangerous ? (i.e. writing to both disks at the same time) Anyone with an insight, please explain :) -- dag wieers, dag at wieers.com,

OK guys and gals ... can we please stop all the fighting? When technical questions are asked, they should be answered. I lot of people on this list have something that a lot of newbies need ... experience. So answering a question with "RTFM" or "JFGI" is not going to impart any of your experience ... which is one of the things they need and want. Also ... if someone attacks

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

...forever. The reality is that people had sold companies on the fact that Red Hat was Microsoft, and 5+ years support was going to be maintained so they could get Linux in companies. That was _never_ true. So when bosses started questioning why, the buck was passed onto Red Hat. In fact, Red Hat _rarely_ did it more than 2 years for a ".2" release. E.g., the second Red Hat Linux 7 came out, Red Hat dropped 5.2 -- and they had dropped 5.0 and 5.1 well before that (by Red Hat Linux 6.1). At various points of Red Hat Linux 7.x releases, they started dropping Red Hat Linux 6.x releases. But...