the ide driver will be built into the kernel.
you can either type 'lspci' or watch while your machine
boots or look in /var/log/messages
it could be a conflict with pata and sata buts hard to
say without more details you know. your kernel is a little
old but not chronically old. it would be worth u
yeah you can just get pci card - ide controllers.
but first of all i would make sure your running the latest
version of your distribution of choice.
you could upgrade your kernel (which is effectively what
im saying) but i would just stick with easy steps for now
and just make sure your distributio
Rod Butcher wrote:
Thanks... how do I check what IDE controller I have ? I have a $99
Gigabyte board with all Via chips. How do you use a separate
controller ? PCI board ? (be patient with me, I'm used to Windows and
"don't you worry about that").
Sorry, should have read ahead.
My system has a
Rod Butcher wrote:
The CD Burner is old anyway and only writes these days at 2x, so I
need to get another one soon - question is, what type should I get to
suit Linux ?
1. I have a board with 2 SATA ports but have not set them up as yet as
my PATA drives work perfectly. No "flakiness" at all.
Thanks... how do I check what IDE controller I have ? I have a $99
Gigabyte board with all Via chips. How do you use a separate controller
? PCI board ? (be patient with me, I'm used to Windows and "don't you
worry about that").
thanks, Rod
Dean Hamstead wrote:
ide is way better on linux than
ide is way better on linux than in windows
but that all depends on the support for your ide controller
chip (so basically the driver)
options include upgrading your kernel or getting another ide
controller. i just bought a nice silicon image pci ide controller
for $40 whole dollars that gives me an
Newbie here again... I think I've narrowed dow my "system flakiness"
during heavy audio editing to a 10-gig Seagate IDE drive I was using for
temp work files... switching these to the main SATA 120 gig drive
results in a stable system. Reason for using the IDE drive was to try
and spread the di
