Re: ata33 vs others?

2003-01-31 Thread J.'LoneWolf' Mattsson
At 18:56 31/01/2003 -0600, Eric Timme wrote: I was just wondering if the performance difference on a p2-400 would warrant me trying to find a controller card that can handle ata100/133, Based on personal experience, I would say nay. It depends on what you are running on the box though - if you

Re: ata33 vs others?

2003-02-01 Thread Pete French
> One small word of caution though, if you move a boot drive to the new > controller, you will have an... interesting.. time with updating your > /etc/fstab and the disklabel to get it to mount root from the right drive > and upgrade the mount to r/w. My advice would probably be to boot once wit

Re: ata33 vs others?

2003-02-01 Thread Ivan Voras
J.'LoneWolf' Mattsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [ snip: adding ata100 controller ] >> This is normally the easy bit. If you don't want to boot off a drive >> connected to this controller you don't have to do anything in the BIOS. >> If you want to boot off this controller, simply change the boot

Re: ata33 vs others?

2003-02-01 Thread J.'LoneWolf' Mattsson
At 15:04 1/02/2003 +0100, Ivan Voras wrote: What are my options if the BIOS is stupid/old enough not to have such a knob? I'm going out on a limb here, but IIRC (it's been a long time since I actually worked with that old hardware) you should be able to ignore the BIOS setting completely, as l

Re: ata33 vs others?

2003-02-01 Thread Glenn Trewitt
Eric Timme wrote: > I was just wondering if the performance difference on a p2-400 would warrant > me trying to find a controller card that can handle ata100/133, and if so, > how hard it'd be to get the motherboard to utilize harddrives connected up to > said controller card? I've done exactly t

Re: ata33 vs others?

2003-02-01 Thread Ivan Voras
J.'LoneWolf' Mattsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> At 15:04 1/02/2003 +0100, Ivan Voras wrote: >>> What are my options if the BIOS is stupid/old enough not to have such a >>> knob? >> >> I'm going out on a limb here, but IIRC (it's been a long time since I >> actually worked with that old hardware

Re: ata33 vs others?

2003-02-02 Thread Alban Hertroys
On 31 Jan, Eric Timme punched keys in this particular order: > After wrestling with an 80gb hd and an Abit BX6-R2 for an afternoon and being > pleasantly surprised that Abit's last bios release would allow my board to > detect and use an 80gb hd I came to the sad realization that the computer >