I see where you were coming from with that now Rick. Personally the Maxtor branded
Promise ATA133 controller+driver under Win2K or XP gave me no lasting issues but
that's about 5 years ago...
Onto Linux: Given CodeWeavers little publicity stunt, I'm again seriously looking at
booting my linux partition to test their claims that CrossOver can actually run
Windows Steam/TF2 (among other games) under linux. If that pans out I might be able
to finally run a linux system often enough to get use to it!
Hope you guys got in on the deal, it's gone now!
www.codeweavers.com
Rick Glazier wrote:
Thanks DH, My reply was slightly misunderstood.
I see it below, I left out some commas.
Any old PCI MB will take an UltraATA controller card and run that drive.
BUT --- WITH the "right" OS AND card drivers.
The "problems" with the OS I referred to was finding a card chipset driver
for the OS wanted. Different card manufacturers and chipset or card
revision numbers caused me "non-usable" problems as the OS versions
advanced.
The older chipset revision numbers dropped off the supported OS driver
list...
(New firmware, if available, did not help.)
That is why I considered the OS (driver area) the limiting factor.
Sorry for being too general before.
Glad you have a new pet project.
I finally am taking a serious look at Ubuntu, and figuring out why it
seems to
hate some of my relatively main stream bland hardware.
I'm fighting known reported "bugs" that no one seems to have worked on
that go back to 2006... I have had the same problems on totally
different hardware combinations, and going back a similarly long time.
It is not my intention to infuriate the Linux members of this list, if any.
Some people on other lists get a little touchy when you complain about
their OS types.
