Hi Larry,

> After reading a lot of the failure reports and noise.

I agree you'll read a lot of "problems" people are having on this list, but
that's typical as people wouldn't email noise to the list saying things work fine.

For me, I had SL5.3 i386 crash the server (kernel panic) when running a
BackupPC backup job, happened a couple of months ago, while it was working
fine for many months on it. 

I updated to SL5.4 i386 on the weekend, and BackupPC works fine again on that
same server (must have refreshed some perl modules or something).

I have since update 90% of my SL5.3 servers to SL5.4 and have encountered no
drawbacks from doing so.

Regards,

Michael.

> Are the available distributions what we are going to live with for 
> the immediate future?
> 
> When I read the release notes for SL 5.4  there is no mention of the 
> S ATA problem or it being fixed.
> 
> NVidea problems I had with SL 5.3 can be taken care of by disabling 
> the video module at install and boot up and just set the desired 
> display resolution.  Thank for tip from a SL user.
> 
> When I tried to install SL 5.3 on 64 bit system with  Serial ATA 
> disks.   The installation just hangs.    I have  Suse 11. on this 
> system but really would like to use SL.  Suse 11.1 - 11.3  has the 
> same NVidea problem.
> 
> The ISO images for SL 5.4 were down loaded a few weeks ago and I 
> wonder if its worth the effort to make the disks and install SL 5.4. 
> since the release notes never said any thing about the SATA 
> interface or at least I didn't find it.
> 
> Regards
> Larry Linder
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