RE: 1394 IDE Drives on RHEL As 2.1

My Understanding was that Redhat back ported some of the later features from
2.6 into the Enterprise Server addition and so I was hoping that this might
have included the ieee1394 stuff. I don't know from a source perspective
what happens on the e (for enterprise) branch.

It would seem from this that you would be recommending staying with the 2.4
branch but using something newer, like RHEL V3. Is that the case?

My other issue is that Oracle only officially supports RHEL 2.1 or RHEL 3 or
Suse Enterprise Server 8 so I wanted to stay as close to one of these as I
can so that I don't get into problems when loading Oracle.

What are your concerns with the 2.6.9 branch? I have access to a fedora core
2 release that I could also try.

Regards Alan

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From: linux1394-user-admin@lists.sourceforge.net
[mailto:linux1394-user-admin@lists.sourceforge.net] On Behalf Of Stefan
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Sent: Monday, February 21, 2005 5:53 PM
To: linux1394-user@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: 1394 IDE Drives on RHEL As 2.1

Alan Williams wrote:
> I am trying to install Oracle 10G for Linux using 1394b, having some
> problems and looking for some help.
...
> - Do I need the kernel patch from linux1394.org for RHEL AS2.1 at
> 2.4.9-e.59smp or is this kernel sufficient ? or

Really? 2.4.9 as in two four nine?

> - do I need a different kernel release?

Everything before 2.4.19 was quite buggy WRT 1394 and SBP-2. You should
get at least 2.4.21 to get rid of most of the bugs, or better yet the
latest 2.4 release. I do not remember when support for 1394b/S800 was
added, nor do I know how easily you can replace the kernel of your
distro by a current one. It will probably be next to impossible to
implant the driver sources from linux1394.org into 2.4.9.

RHEL v2.95 or v3 have kernel 2.4.21-something, BTW. RHEL v4 has kernel
2.6.9, which may not work reliably with SBP-2 on some configurations.
Note: I never used a Red Hat distro myself.

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