<Adds FIC VA503+ and big drives to his list of things to avoid>
Try www.compgeeks.com. They may have a few Promise EIDE controllers
left.
DON'T, not even in an air raid, consider an ISA EIDE controller. I
think that sort of bottleneck could break a lot of assumptions made by
the programmers.
If you cannot get the board there for a substantial discount, then try
www.dcdrives.com for full factory price.
Civileme
Thomas & Peter wrote:
> I have a FIC VA503+ with a Maxtor Hard drive. I am running Win 98 and
> Mandrake. My MB recognizes my Maxtor HD but not its size. I have
> upgraded my bios to the newest version. So I have to install EZ Bios
> to get it to see its full size. Everything is running fine except that
> EZ Bios makes Linux see My HD as a temporary drive. instead of the
> main. So it will not run executible programs. I wrote FIC 4 times
> inquirering about this problem before upgrading my Bios and have not
> gotten an answer. Maxtor E d me the next day and told me to get an
> EIDE controller card. Does any one know of a card that Linux will see.
> I have a space for PCI and ISA. Thank you Thomas
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