andre wrote:
>
> Op 30 Jun 2001 23:10:28 +1000, Ron Stodden schreef:
> >
> >
> > I think that maybe all he is looking for is to use it as an ATA-100
> > controller, which Mandrake probably supports now (I have 1 on-board
> > Promise RAID chip in one machine and an ATA-100 PCI Promise
> > controller in another. Both provide ATA100 performance in Mandrake
> > 8.0 Unfortunately, a hard disk is still required on IDE0 for booting
> > <grrrrr!>).
> >
> > --
> > Ron. [au]
> couldn't you use a bootfloppy for ide0
possibly, since all the BIOS boot and LILO want on ide0 is an MBR,
but I am not willing to do so because I use xosl to boot many
operating system partitions - to have to fiddle with a floppy for one
or some boots defeats the beauty of xosl.
--
Ron. [au]
