On Thu, 29 Jun 2000, you wrote:
> Gee, this must be a new bug.
>
> My brand new Duron Board won't work with ATA/100 on
> Mandrake 7.1 (of course it won't work at ATA 100 with
> RH, Caldera, FreeBSD, Windows (any flavor) or BeOS
> either)
>
> Where are these guys at? The Duron and ATA
> motherboards came out, available for sale on June 15
> and no distro, not even Mandrake, supports them. It
> has been TWO WHOLE WEEKS!!!!
>
> And I had to search 28 vendors to find an ATA/100
> drive, too ;-P
>
>
> Where do I sent the Bug reports?
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Andre Hedrick)
>
> Yes I really do have a Duron and I really do have
> ATA/100 rated equipment. I'll let you know in a few
> days whether it works at ATA 66 which is what I am
> shooting for. I just could not resist poking a bit of
> fun at the folks who thing UDMA66 not working out of
> the box is Mandrake's fault. There are too many
> variables to assume that.
>
> I frankly don't see any advantage to ATA/100 except if
> you buy stuff rated for 100 it might actually work
> stably at 66.
Frankly, I also don't see any advantage of ATA/66 over ATA/33 (unless you are
running a RAID config..)
>
> Civileme
Cheers,
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