Re: [newbie] ata66 Please help me.
AFAIK: Avoid "promise" controllers. hpt366 is a bit better, the rest should be OK. Denis On Sun, 12 Mar 2000, Emanuele La Rosa wrote: :~Please My girlfriend is going to buy a new computer that support the Ultra-ata :~66. She wants to put Linux in her computer but I don't know how it works with :~U-66. The problem is: The system works without this protocol o it doesn't boot :~at all? If the problem is only due to a non used protocol, maybe using the U-33 :~I think that the system will work pretty good too. in fact, maybe I'm wrong, :~if a good hard-disk has a band-witht of 12MByte using a U-33, or U-66 shouldn't :~be a problem because the bottleneck is in the speed of Hard-disk and not in :~the controller. :~Please help. :~ -- - Mag^H^H^HDr. Denis Havlik http://www.ap.univie.ac.at/users/havlik Mandrakesoft||| e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Austria(@ @) tel: (++431) 4277/51179 ---oOO--(_)--OOo-
Re: [newbie] ata66 Please help me.
I've read that Linux kernel does not support ata66 very well if at all and that performance of 66 over 33 is not that great. Take it from there! Emanuele La Rosa wrote: Please My girlfriend is going to buy a new computer that support the Ultra-ata 66. She wants to put Linux in her computer but I don't know how it works with U-66. The problem is: The system works without this protocol o it doesn't boot at all? If the problem is only due to a non used protocol, maybe using the U-33 I think that the system will work pretty good too. in fact, maybe I'm wrong, if a good hard-disk has a band-witht of 12MByte using a U-33, or U-66 shouldn't be a problem because the bottleneck is in the speed of Hard-disk and not in the controller. Please help. __ NetZero - Defenders of the Free World Get your FREE Internet Access and Email at http://www.netzero.net/download/index.html
RE: [newbie] ata66 Please help me.
UNSUBSCRIBE ME -Original Message- From: Emanuele La Rosa [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Sunday, March 12, 2000 2:44 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] ata66 Please help me. Please My girlfriend is going to buy a new computer that support the Ultra-ata 66. She wants to put Linux in her computer but I don't know how it works with U-66. The problem is: The system works without this protocol o it doesn't boot at all? If the problem is only due to a non used protocol, maybe using the U-33 I think that the system will work pretty good too. in fact, maybe I'm wrong, if a good hard-disk has a band-witht of 12MByte using a U-33, or U-66 shouldn't be a problem because the bottleneck is in the speed of Hard-disk and not in the controller. Please help.
Re: [newbie] ata66 Please help me.
GO TO THE LINUX MANDRAKE WEBSITE AND DO IT, JUST LIKE YOU SUBSCRIBED!!! "Knowledge is Power" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Note: remove "NOSPAM" to email me. - Original Message - From: Hal Zucati [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, March 12, 2000 6:19 AM Subject: RE: [newbie] ata66 Please help me. UNSUBSCRIBE ME -Original Message- From: Emanuele La Rosa [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Sunday, March 12, 2000 2:44 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] ata66 Please help me. Please My girlfriend is going to buy a new computer that support the Ultra-ata 66. She wants to put Linux in her computer but I don't know how it works with U-66. The problem is: The system works without this protocol o it doesn't boot at all? If the problem is only due to a non used protocol, maybe using the U-33 I think that the system will work pretty good too. in fact, maybe I'm wrong, if a good hard-disk has a band-witht of 12MByte using a U-33, or U-66 shouldn't be a problem because the bottleneck is in the speed of Hard-disk and not in the controller. Please help. __ Do You Yahoo!? Talk to your friends online with Yahoo! Messenger. http://im.yahoo.com
