[oclug] Compatibility

[Chris Cooper]

I'm running a Promise Ultra66 controller for my win2000/shared drive, 
with Linux on the motherboard.  The controller is seen just fine from 
within win/dos/linux(hde-hdh), no modules needed.  If you want to run 
the IDE Raid cards, you may have problems, but with the basic IDE card 
it works perfect.

Sandy Harris wrote:

> Gorm Jensen wrote:
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>> Thanks for the reply Sandy.  After a full day of reading, then trial and
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>> error, I just found that the drive must be referred to as sda1 instead of
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>> hdd or hdd1 or hdd4.  What a hassle!
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>> 
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>> I tried a dummy run with the burner at 4x, and the buffer stayed full - so
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>> the performance penalty, if any, is acceptable.
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>> What is a "Promise controller "?
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> A line of add-on IDE/ATAPI controllers. Pop one in a PCI slot, fiddle with
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> drivers a bunch, and you have a couple more interfaces to use. Their main
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> market appears to be upgrades. e.g. If your motherboard only does UDMA 33,
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> adding one of these can give you UDMA 66 or 100.
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> www.promise.com
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> I'm know at least some models are supported in Linux, but I'm hazy on
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> details.
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