Slackware and SAS disks

sunkenmel · 08-27-2007, 01:59 PM

Does Slackware 12.0 handle SAS disk drives?

MS3FGX · 08-27-2007, 03:40 PM

The installer kernel supports pretty much everything that Linux 2.6 does, so if it has support in the kernel, you should be able to install Slackware onto it. I have no personal experience with using these devices under Slackware, however.

packeteer · 08-28-2007, 12:32 AM

its not a question of sas disk support, but whether Slack supports your SAS controller.

ie. there's a good chance it does support your hardware.

gn0m3 · 08-28-2007, 04:07 PM

I installed Slackware 11.0 on an HP Proliant server with SAS drives and had no problem. The only detail to observe is choosing a kernel with compiled support for the CCISS driver. With Slack 11 those were raid.s for a 2.4.33.3 kernel or test26.s or huge26.s for 2.6.x kernels.
With Slack 12 you only get kernel 2.6.21.5, so the default kernel will do.