[NBLUG/talk] Finding an compatible IDE motherboard

[Todd Cary]

Ross -

Greatly appreciate your interest/question.  I have Centos 4 running on 
an old box; not sure of the motherboard or CPU.  But when I went to 
upgrade my Red Hat 9 to Centos 4 or Fedora 5 (I believe it was 5) or the 
Linux on a CD (Ubuntu), none will install.

Now it may be due to my lack of understanding about upgrading drivers 
that I can't upgrade.  My main goal is to have Centos 4 on the computer 
due to the great performance on the other box (I have not had to touch 
it :-) ) and to have them both as close as possible since they are 
suppose to be "backups" to each other.

Todd

Ross Thomas wrote:
> On Fri, 10 Nov 2006 16:26:11 -0800, "Todd Cary"
> <todd at aristesoftware.com> said:
>   
>> I have a server running Red Hat 9 on a Abit BE7-RAID board with
>> some IDE drives. I want to upgrade to a later version of Linux, but
>> the BE7 is not supported by newer versions
>>     
>
> Just out of interest, how did you determine this?  If this is because a
> certain distro has dropped support, you may want to look at another
> distro that does support it instead.
>
> Certainly the HPT372 raid controller is covered by a standard driver,
> the hpt366 driver by the looks of it.
>
> Ross.
>
>   

-- 
Ariste Software
2200 D Street Ext
Petaluma, CA 94952
(707) 773-4523