On Fri, 5 Nov 1999, Robert J Bartels wrote:
> If it's not quiet supported as yet could I just plug the ata66 drives
> into the ide controller
> on board? Will the drives work this way but just not have the speed of
> ata66? If this is
> the case I will pull the controller until official support is here... Speed
> is not as important
> as access to the data on the drives...
>
> Thanks
>
> Bob
Why not leave it where it is and run the ata66 in EIDE mode (promise did
follow ata66 spec didn't they..) it's treated like any other offboard ide
controler card would be. I would leave it on there if you intend to put it
there ever, as moveing hd's is such a pain :)
> >On Thu, 4 Nov 1999, Robert J Bartels wrote:
> >
> > > HI all,
> > >
> > > I have a machine that needs to be expunged of microsoft. I have a
> > promise
> > > controller that communicates with my big 20 giger ultra66 drive.
> > > Does Mandrake support this controller yet? and if so how can I get it to
> > > see this
> > > drive in order to access it.
> > >
> > > Thanks
> > >
> > > Bob
> >
> >
> >Does Linux support this card yet? is the question you mean to ask, the
> >answer is yes in the form of an alpha patch for ata66. (path #23 or 53 i
> >think in the srpm) Would need uncommented adn rebuild, or
> >cd /usr/src/linux
> >bzcat /usr/src/RPM/SOURCE/ide-something |patch -p1
> >
> >But i will tell you now I am quite serious about the alpha part.. This is
> >why it's not enabled..
> >
> >--
> >MandrakeSoft http://www.mandrakesoft.com/
> > --Axalon
>
>
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