dbota wrote: > > Why do you have to have a slower drive than ATA for booting? Are we talking > new drives on older controllers or drives running on an ATA 66/100 > controller?
That is not the problem. Most BIOSs provide no ability to select beyond HDD0 .. HDD4, if that, for booting. Usually only HDD0 and HDD1, ie booting is limited to IDE0. > Which brings up my particular interest ... do you know if Redhat 5.1 (kernel > 2.034 could load on an ATA100 drive that was running on Dell Pentium III > EIDE controller? I guess you are saying it couldn't ... ? ATA100 drives will run from an ATA66 controller quite happily. Marginally slower overall throughput, though. -- Ron. [au]
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