I built a brand new FC3 smp kernel system using 681 kernel on a system
that had two SATA drives. I configured with logical volume support with
boot filesystem mirrored/replicated and configured striped for all the
other filesystems. All of the kernels since 681 have failed during boot
with error message saying unable to read superblock.
681.img file has ata stuff
0 Dec 12 15:18 lib
16252 Dec 12 15:18 lib/sata_promise.ko
15208 Dec 12 15:18 lib/ata_piix.ko
139364 Dec 12 15:18 lib/ext3.ko
24100 Dec 12 15:18 lib/sd_mod.ko
74528 Dec 12 15:18 lib/jbd.ko
22976 Dec 12 15:18 lib/raid1.ko
141368 Dec 12 15:18 lib/scsi_mod.ko
13600 Dec 12 15:18 lib/raid0.ko
51072 Dec 12 15:18 lib/libata.ko
subsequent kernel img files don't.