> > 'bout the only thing i can say about which ide controller is used is that > > it is built into the motherboard in a hp vectra vl. > > > > and the driver version is one thing i did notice: redhat 7.1 has an ide > > driver version 1.10 whereas debian with 2.2.12 has an ide driver version > > of 1.08. i am inclinded to believe the difference lies there. > > Run /sbin/lspci and paste the output here. > > Maybe it'll help someone reading the archives... > > Mike
i could not find lspci under debian, but here is the output from the redhat version of lspci.... pengwyn:disk# /RedHat7.1/sbin/lspci 00:00.0 Class 0600: 8086:1237 (rev 02) 00:04.0 Class 0601: 8086:7000 (rev 01) 00:04.1 Class 0101: 8086:7010 00:07.0 Class 0200: 1022:2000 (rev 25) 00:0a.0 Class 0300: 102b:051b -- regards, allen wayne best contractor, diagnostics and support tools telnet 447-4070 "your friendly neighborhood rambler owner" "my rambler will go from 0 to 105" Current date: 10:13:16::197:2001 There is a certain frame of mind to which a cemetery is, if not an antidote, at least an alleviation. If you are in a fit of the blues, go nowhere else. --Robert Louis Stevenson: Immortelles