This is always a fuzzy area for me. It seems that I've installed hard drives before that were not supported by the bios by installing "Max Blast" for Maxtor hard drives. I think that you can usually break past the barriers with the right software.
Incidentally, I've installled a Promise ATA100 PCI card that came free with a Maxtor drive in both a Windows 98 Pentium Pro system (used with a 200G drive) and I installed the same Promise ATA100 PCI card on a Pentium II 266 system using SUSE 10 Linux (with the same 200G drive by Seagate) and it worked fine in both systems. So, I'd say, yea - if you can find one of those old cheapy ATA100/ATA133 promise PCI IDE cards you can probably get it to work. I've not really done any timing tests to determine if the ATA100 promise card performs better than the onboard PII ATA66 IDE controller. I actually have drives attached to both onboard IDE controllers as well as the Promise ATA100 card on my system. Everything "just works" under SUSE 10 linux. Kevin -- kkitts ------------------------------------------------------------------------ kkitts's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1993 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=22506 _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
