Hi Mike!
I use a Hotrod 66 IDE card which works like a charm after I patched the kernel
to use it. This card is very cheap - about the same as a lower performing SCSI
card.
You talk about the expense of using IDE cards, yet, if you go the SCSI route,
you will spend a *lot* more on disks and CD burners, etc.
Cheers,
Jason.
--On Friday, August 4, 2000 19:31 -0400 "Mike A. Harris" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
> That would be fine, except for one thing: I have 2 hard disks,
> both of which are mounted and used all the time. One is hda, the
> other hdb. So in order to solve this problem admirably, I would
> need an external IDE card I suppose. PCI cards are expensive,
> and if I were to buy one I might as well get a SCSI card and go
> that route instead. An ISA card would be ok, except most don't
> allow you to change the IRQ to something else, so my onboard ones
> would have to move if the BIOS allows it. Then the hda/b/c,
> etc.. order might change and that would be bad unless the kernel
> can control which card is seen as the first controller. Then we
> have I/O port issues as well. Uggh. I think I'll use a network
> mounted CDROM instead. The only problem is that the machine will
> Oops if I accidentally mount the CD while erasing. That is
> unacceptable to me.
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